The time we have left

Several people walk along the Paseo Marítimo de Sanxenxo, in Pontevedra, Galicia (Spain) .Beatriz Ciscar / Europa Press

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• Writer José Manuel Caballero Bonald dies at 94

We are the time that we have left,

titled José Manuel Caballero Bonald, who has just died in Madrid, his complete poetic work and the title sounds revealing in these times that we are living, when everything seems to want to start again, not only for spring, that it is a time of rebirth, but because of the hope that finally the dark months of the pandemic and its aftermath of all kinds will begin to be a memory. Tired of so much tension, we all dream that this will finally end and we can go back to living as we lived before the viral pandemic unleashed on humanity as a new horseman of the Apocalypse.

We are the time that we have left to live, people seem to say to themselves even without expressing it with those same words, eager to recover the spirit and the illusion to live without fear and with the freedom of those who fear nothing of what surrounds them. In little more than a year we have even forgotten how we lived before the pandemic and it will be difficult for us to recover those customs, that normality, despite which we are all dreaming of starting to live again and recover the time lost due to the disease .

"For me, what I have left over is the past, the future is what I am lacking," declared Caballero Bonald in an interview about to turn 79 (he died last week at 94) in what was more a confirmation than a regret Well, it was never much to regret. On the contrary, his enthusiasm for life led him to enjoy it as much as he could, which explains his attachment to it and his positivity. We should learn from him now that a new era is beginning and try to take advantage of the future that each of us has left, which is the time that we will have to live. During all these months of anguish, anxiety and fear (for many also of desolation and pain), it has been discussed about which part of the population the loss of this time has been more burdensome, if the young people, who have been lost a precious time in his life, that of his discovery, to his parents,those for whom the pandemic has forced them to rethink everything, even the way they work, or their grandparents, who have less time to live by nature and for whom the loss of a year is a greater frustration for it than for the previous. Be that as it may, the truth is that for everyone the time of the pandemic has been a lost time and what it is about now is to leave it behind and start living again starting from the beginning or at least with all the illusion. Regretting what was lost, except in the case of people's lives, will not help us to recover time and in regret and frustration we can let the one that comes pass without enjoying it, as it happens so often in life.for those who have less time to live by nature and for whom the loss of a year is a greater frustration for it than for the previous ones. Be that as it may, the truth is that for everyone the time of the pandemic has been a lost time and what it is about now is to leave it behind and start living again starting from the beginning or at least with all the illusion. Regretting what was lost, except in the case of people's lives, will not help us to recover time and in regret and frustration we can let the one that comes pass without enjoying it, as it happens so often in life.for those who have less time to live by nature and for whom the loss of a year is a greater frustration for it than for the previous ones. Be that as it may, the truth is that for everyone the time of the pandemic has been a lost time and what it is about now is to leave it behind and start living again starting from the beginning or at least with all the illusion. Regretting what was lost, except in the case of people's lives, will not help us to recover time and in regret and frustration we can let the one that comes pass without enjoying it, as it happens so often in life.The truth is that for everyone the time of the pandemic has been a lost time and what it is about now is to leave it behind and start living again starting from the beginning or at least with all the illusion. Regretting what was lost, except in the case of people's lives, will not help us to recover time and in regret and frustration we can let the one that comes pass without enjoying it, as it happens so often in life.The truth is that for everyone the time of the pandemic has been a lost time and what it is about now is to leave it behind and start living again starting from the beginning or at least with all the illusion. Regretting what was lost, except in the case of people's lives, will not help us to recover time and in regret and frustration we can let the one that comes pass without enjoying it, as it happens so often in life.

the journalist Íñigo Domínguez titled an article a few weeks after the pandemic began to highlight the contradiction, so human, of not valuing normality until we lose it and that warning, like that of José Manuel Caballero Bonald or that of John Lennon: "Life is what happens while you make plans for life", should serve as inspiration for the time we have left to live.