I have traveled through this life trying to be a perfect person. So I have tried to be the best son, the best brother, the best cousin, the best uncle, the best student, the best professional, the best colleague, the best neighbor, the best boyfriend, the best husband, the best father, but over time I understood that you cannot always be the best.
Then when I lived through the fifth decade I understood that. Even when one is educated in the midst of a religious home and ethical, moral and social values are instilled in us. Perfection is never achieved in the human being, because to err is human, many say, and to rectify is wise, some will say.
How if we were created by a perfect being we are not?
I would say someone, like this journalist who believes in God. Who has given me proof of his existence, although sometimes I ask him why we have to suffer for original sin.
These days we have also seen how feelings of hatred towards some people proliferate just because they were born poor and are forced to look for work in a richer nation than the one of origin. In order to help the family.
There are millions of Cubans who have emigrated to countries such as the United States of America, Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, Spain, Italy and even in China and Australia there are communities of Cubans. But they do not lose their essence: they continue to eat rice with beans, although on top of the potato for the richest mash. As earthlings we are so divided that despite living on the same planet we have different countries. Although the formation of countries was a historical process that their inhabitants were building.
In each of them there is a shared identity, customs and ways of living. Therefore, when I point out the existence of many countries. It is necessary to mention the social, political, economic and cultural differences inherent in their formation as a country, nation, state and which must be respected if they decide, as a people, to maintain the historical figure of a King with his monarchy or the figure of a president with his Republic.
Despite the imperfections of the human being, as a global inhabitant of this planet, we must reach a global agreement: to work to live as a commonwealth of peoples whose social, religious, cultural, and linguistic differences unite us as earthlings instead of dividing us, and it is the smartest way to coexist in the longed-for peace.
The emergence of rich countries such as those of developed Europe or the United States of America. To cite two examples, was based on the construction of their wealth with the exploitation of slave force, the extraction of the most valuable mineral resources of Africa, Asia and Latin America. As was the case of the Spanish and British empires and the current American empire.
Former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero recently said why discriminate against immigrants if the Spaniards were welcomed in many countries when Spain was poor, and now it was time to pay off that historical debt of gratitude. When that Kingdom of Europe is one of the richest nations on the Old Continent.
How can we understand that a president of a rich nation despises the immigrants who pick apples in California, help sanitation when a hurricane passes through Florida, are the masons who build and clean skyscrapers in New York. It is immigrants who do the hardest jobs, and at the same time the lowest paid.
It is the immigrants who maintain the growth of the population, because the nationals have few offspring or do not want to have them to live better, according to some of them. We were born to be happy, but some people with hatred, resentment, and without any love insist on making the less fortunate suffer.
When we decide to bring our children into the world we give them all our love so that they grow up to be good people, kind, and prepared to live in harmony, peace, and love. But selfishness in many societies leads to the proliferation of billionaires. Whose wealth has grown thanks to the hiring of millions of immigrants or nationals in countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina where large corporations such as Apple, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Microsoft, Nestlé, among others, could not exist or accumulate wealth without the labor force of the less fortunate.
And there are people with great political power, but lacking the great power of love. They may have all the money in their bank accounts that they wouldn’t spend in three lifetimes. But they don’t have peace in their hearts.
I am not saying that all politicians or the wealthy in rich countries are the same, because some of them have shown that they are not from the pack of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, but those who sow hatred should know that they will reap the social storm.
Some surnames may have a lot of accumulated wealth, but not accumulated happiness to feed the spiritual energy. Which moves towards the noblest feelings within the societies most open to the needy and they must be reminded that happy people do not hurt anyone, even if we are not perfect.
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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