I haven’t given foot with a ball for three weeks, since I He gave me a jamauco because of a medicine, and the days eat me up by the feet, starting with the article, the column that crosses the day like a Moorish skewer. I write with a kind of misty cobweb in my head. Today I wanted to get a point out of a phrase from an interview with Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, the author of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ a clairvoyant sentence that says: “After the fall of the Berlin wall, the world went shopping.” The end of the story was a Chinese tale, but they don’t give me the head or the spirit to pull the thread. My raft capsized, and I can’t find the oar.
Chekhov and Dostoevsky
I went to the doctor, the last patient on his visiting list. A generous, deep, methodical man. He doctor saura it looks like Chekhov and leads to Dostoevsky in the pocket, a little book translated by Miquel Cabal, ‘Manyaga’. After we are left alone in the office with the telephone operator, a conversation ensues that leads, without really knowing why, toward the little things in life, to how each one faces the battle.
I got an idea from the doctor: “Happiness is in the routine” or something like that. a sentence of Kierkegaard. Understood happiness as a state of calm, without fuss or fireworks. I got caught. Back home, looking for you, I found that the old man Aristotle I had already thought about the matter: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. In a flash of light, I understood: what has me stunned is not so much the servitudes of the body —we are already climbing up the slope— as the blowing up of the poles that support the shadow of the day. The invisible architecture of everyday life was blown up.
Second lesson
Lots of wasap and emails to answer. Appointments and commitments cancelled. Not a walk. A pocho zucchini in the fridge (until the day assigned to shopping has collapsed). dynamited too those first hours of the day devoted to reading or to scribble one’s things. boom. Even the most pressing desires starve if not fed.
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Lesson learned: Habits help to live.
The second came in the program that Jordi Évole dedicated to Maruja Torres last Sunday, where the veteran journalist said: “The pain that life gives you must be taken on a short leash and ensure that it keeps up with you.” And then, the people, of course, because life, if it is not a congregation, is not worth it.