It's been a while since the last time I wrote here. In that period of time I have been enganged in different activities, from the noble ones of reading Brothers Karamazov and understand some aspects of my life, also to go to the gym, play football, and shake that body from the rustiness it had been subjected for some years before, up to the not so enlightening activities of spending countless hours playing.
Some other things happened during this period that compromises almost two months; one day I had a false alarm for a transplant. All the last year and a half passed through my mind for a bit more than 12 hours, until the alarm was declared, well, false. Overall I believe it wasnt the moment for having such surgery.
Its widely known by my friends and people that know me well, the opinion that I hold concerning my country, Colombia. As in general, if I was a person that loved my country a lot overall, perhaps I wouldnt have developed my Wanderlust as I did, and most probably I wouldnt have lived in the Czech Republic.
I dont hold any high opinion on this country of mine, nor have big expectations about its future, however after having returned here in the cinrcunstances in which I did, I decided to try to see Colombia with positive eyes.
Such view lasted for some months, but being honest to myself, sincerely, I cannot see much brightness in here, The country just lost most of its Caribbean sea a week ago, I would have expected people from my country to movilize, but did they do anything at all? Not really.. Colombians moan, whine, and talk a lot, but when they've got to act to defend an ideal or such, they run away!
It was, is, and probably will continue being, pathetic to check up the comments of people in the webpages of our local newspaper. Overall, such comments filled with ignorance are for me a loyal representation of what the situation of Colombia is. This is a country in which ignorance is bliss, in which blindness is the passport, and in which knowledge is badly seen by everyone. Who holds knowledge is eithr mocked off by the ignorants, or even worse hated by those that would like to have such knowledge.
In the most Woody Allen style I have come to the conclusion that even if one tries to elude the idiosincracy of this country, one is subjected to sooner or later end up as the typical Colombian. How can one person different to the others, raise a child with virtue if anyway he'll be "shaped" in school and university? Colombian schools that preach a lot of shit, always talking about the development of individual thinking, rationalism, and bla bla bla. Or how about our wonderful universities that speak as if they were raising in every single of their students a new Kant? We live in a country where everyone is and wants to be a Business Manager. Administración de Empresas is the second ID!
I don't know if I'll end up moving to another country once again in the future, for I prefer now to not plan ahead. I can only be thankful that internet exists! as if it wasnt because of it I wouldnt be enjoying Prince Igor, Ruslan and Lyudmila, or Rusalka, but instead I would be subjected to the national universe of syncretic mediocrity.
P.S. Of course not all Colombians are like this. But the vast majority of those 46 million people that live here are. Like for example the man filled with ignorance that I met the other day online, that dared to call me "brainwashed" for loving Classical music. Because according to him, there are talents nowadays that have same if not greater, talent.
BAH!
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