There are darknesses that are very clear. They are reflected very simply and directly in a transparent mirror, without preambles. A mirror that returns that light that is very easily distinguished from the darkness.
It is in those cases in which its presence does not confuse: in pain, in loss, in sadness, in death. There the light is so far away that we run no risk of misinterpretations.
But what happens when darkness feeds on light? What is the signal that allows us to identify it in our daily lives?
How can we see something we don’t expect to be there?
Perhaps it is many years of teaching and habit that lead us to avoid the darkness instead of going through it. How are we going to prepare ourselves to grow in pain and fear if it is preferable to lie so as not to recognize them?
Don’t do this. Don’t go there. That is not talked about. No good person goes through that. Never tell what happened to you. Don’t accept what you did either. That can’t be true because he comes from a good family. Cut her with that. Nobody is going to love you if you continue with that.
Let me warn you, in advance, that these chronicles do not come to claim the light so that at the end of the journey you can feel a little better.
These chronicles try, abruptly, to show the imbalance between light and darkness not to equalize it but to defend it.
Because the world does not lack light. Neither to you, nor to me. What has been missing for a long time is the courage to stop looking the other way every time the darkness corners us.
In the next pages you will find some of those situations that are supposed to be ignored.
If you made it this far, then I invite you to continue a little further.
*This is the prologue to “Five Chronicles to Cross Darkness”, by María Alejandra de Antoni. On Tuesday, December 2, it will be presented at 7 p.m. by the author in the library at the Culture Department Theater of the Boca Juniors Athletic Club, together with Francisco Cosentino and Yohana Solis.
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