Silvia Fesquet
07/24/2021 22:30
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 07/24/2021 10:30 PM
With the same energy with which an electronic pastor cries out "Stop suffering", others exhort to be happy almost, almost, as if it were an obligation.
Worshipers of the "pum up", of the smile displayed as if they had it tattooed, show
a kind of contempt for anyone who dares to confess that they are sad
No matter what the cause is, that melancholy or nostalgia has touched his soul, that he is not in the mood for karaoke. A literal or metaphorical duel, the memory of a love, an anniversary that relives the absence, or what was once called existential anguish, the notion of finitude, the knowledge that we are mortal and that one day the party of life will come. to an end, for us and for our loved ones. Any of these reasons is more than valid to allow yourself to be caressed by sadness. As human and as inseparable from our condition as enjoying joys and genuine moments of happiness can be. Different for each one, and without a prescription to reach them. What is being talked about is what the sociologist Eva Illouz and the psychologist Edgar Cabanas called “Happycracia”.
"Happiness - they say in their book - has become an obsession and a poisoned gift
" and they point to how shameful it is today to say that one is not happy, as if external factors did not carve, as
if something had been done bad
. And they maintain that this current, which draws on positive psychology, produces emotional hypochondriacs: it is not enough to be neither bad nor well, you have to be your best. And that is only achieved by denying the essence of life itself. "
I have cried what I cried for well / because after all I have verified / that one does not enjoy what is enjoyed well / but after having suffered it,
" wrote José Luis Bernárdez.
