If tomorrow was invented a "forget pill, a pill to erase the painful facts of our life, to suppress the memory of those hits that marked us forever, who the take?
Anyone interested should first do the math. If we could remember only the good times, it certainly would not be the same. In the future, unable to understand the suffering of others, his sentence would seem stupid. Would believe that they deserve what they suffer. The blame of their torment. And so, judging would increase their misery, which would prevent the misfortune to touch us.
But also without such traumatic events our identity would be unreal. There is nothing more than our history of suffering that we can only have in private, without trouble and not to anyone. Was not at the time of pain we had the impression of being different from others? "Why me?", Said, "Why now? Why this way? ". We feel alone. We learned only in the world. The pleasure, love does not have chiseled our "I" rather than frustration, failure and impotence of not being loved as I wanted. A man, a woman with no memory of his passion, would be about eternal tourists on earth. Its existence would seem to show a kind of unreality: scenery, drama dumb, fake laughter, applause
false ... But how can we judge people who, having suffered much in his life, decided to take a pill to forget their pain? No way. Never judge! But these same people would probably be the least interested in taking it, because she knows that her passion is exactly what would have to say. These people, our knowledge, contribute to our life in society share raw truth betrays us and heals us at the same time. No one as they develop a fine sense of smell to detect the woman lying, the new rich, the preacher who speaks without saying anything ... no memory of the victims of an advanced society without direction.
Jesus would not have ever taken the pill of forgetfulness. " Had they done so would have to represent disabled victims before God. Jesus' followers have taken it either. For sharing the pain of others, loving with the love of Jesus, Christians prove the impossible: that God is not apathetic, that God does not give the same passion in the world.
Anyone interested should first do the math. If we could remember only the good times, it certainly would not be the same. In the future, unable to understand the suffering of others, his sentence would seem stupid. Would believe that they deserve what they suffer. The blame of their torment. And so, judging would increase their misery, which would prevent the misfortune to touch us.
But also without such traumatic events our identity would be unreal. There is nothing more than our history of suffering that we can only have in private, without trouble and not to anyone. Was not at the time of pain we had the impression of being different from others? "Why me?", Said, "Why now? Why this way? ". We feel alone. We learned only in the world. The pleasure, love does not have chiseled our "I" rather than frustration, failure and impotence of not being loved as I wanted. A man, a woman with no memory of his passion, would be about eternal tourists on earth. Its existence would seem to show a kind of unreality: scenery, drama dumb, fake laughter, applause
false ... But how can we judge people who, having suffered much in his life, decided to take a pill to forget their pain? No way. Never judge! But these same people would probably be the least interested in taking it, because she knows that her passion is exactly what would have to say. These people, our knowledge, contribute to our life in society share raw truth betrays us and heals us at the same time. No one as they develop a fine sense of smell to detect the woman lying, the new rich, the preacher who speaks without saying anything ... no memory of the victims of an advanced society without direction.
Jesus would not have ever taken the pill of forgetfulness. " Had they done so would have to represent disabled victims before God. Jesus' followers have taken it either. For sharing the pain of others, loving with the love of Jesus, Christians prove the impossible: that God is not apathetic, that God does not give the same passion in the world.
Posted in If I had to raise a child ... to convey ideas humanity, Ignatian Spirituality Centre, Santiago, 2004.
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