Happy times are empty pages in history books, said Hegel.
It must be because when we are happy we don't review it, you live alone.
But there are not many page breaks, things are always happening.
After reigning 50 years, the Basque-Umayyad caliph Abderramán III admitted that he had had all the pleasures and riches, and yet: “I diligently counted the days of pure and genuine happiness that touched me: they amount to 14 ″.
Poor Abderramán III, but that's because he didn't have to go to the NATO summit in Madrid, if not, one day he would have been more certain because he has been great.
His wife, above all, would have had a great time, there was a whole plan of ladies with visits and walks to keep them entertained, while the husbands put the world in order.
Maybe they even went shopping for a while at El Corte Inglés.
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NATO Summit 2022 in Madrid
I thought this was anachronistic, but it may be the other way around, that it didn't happen before.
I do not remember the women of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in the Yalta photos.
It is something of now and it does not happen in any other work, you do not see this in medical congresses or in the biennial of machine tools.
It may be due to the gradual elevation of the ruler's partner to public rank, but I can't help but think: but who are all these people and what are they doing there at a NATO summit?
Do they come to socialize?
Do the bosses consult before if they do it with or without families as in a meeting?
Who cares who the wife of the Prime Minister of Malta is?
All by chance, because these people, and I don't care about their gender, married someone who was later elected to command,
But it's also that I spend the time thinking that it's all a lie.
That they aren't even close friends —Sánchez passing his hand over Orbán's madman while he explains
Las meninas—,
and that it's all work.
But there has been a great deployment to avoid all seriousness of war and to make it appear what it is not, a social act.
More than a military summit, it seemed like a
reality show
, with that emphasis on the human side and even on the family environment.
In fact, there is what they call the family photo.
It seemed more like a wedding, and as in weddings they will go home saying that everything was very well organized.
The seriousness, the details, the hangover, we will see later, because, in addition to the mess we have in Europe, between the sandwiches you heard very strong things, like that China is the new enemy, and you hardly heard what is going to happen now of the poor Kurds.
There was too much good vibes for what was at stake, and it was still weird.
We've already filled the history pages for this week, and we'll see what makes the headlines.
Because, for example, I want to put on record here - and this is what I wanted to say from the beginning - that, although there was a horrible heat wave in June, yes, it is true, and it was totally abnormal, and unbearable, and it lasted a week, and it seemed like the end of the world, posterity must know that later in June it was great, some delicious days followed, incredible, without cold or heat, with a slight breeze, it was glorious to see them and they had not been remembered for years .
It has not been on TV, there will be no trace of it, but everyone has commented on it.
We were a little happier, but we didn't give it much importance.
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