I have traveled through this life trying to be a perfect person, and 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 realized that you can’t always be the best.
Then, when I entered my fifties, I realized that, even when one is raised in a religious home and instilled with ethical, moral, and social values, perfection is never achieved in human beings, because to err is human, many say, and to rectify is wise, some might say.
How is it that, if we were created by a perfect being, we are not perfect? I would say someone, like this journalist, who believes in God, who has given me proof of his existence, although I sometimes asked him why we have to suffer for original sin.
These days, I’ve also seen how feelings of hatred proliferate toward some people simply for being born poor and forced to seek work in a richer nation than their home country in order to support their families.
Millions of Cubans have emigrated to countries like the United States of America, Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, Spain, Italy, and even in China and Australia, there are Cuban communities, but they haven’t lost their essence: they still eat rice and beans, although with potatoes for the richest mashed potatoes.
As earthlings, we are so divided that despite living on the same planet, we have different countries, although the formation of these countries was a historical process that their inhabitants built. In each of them, there is a shared identity, customs, and ways of life.
Therefore, when I point out the existence of many countries, I must mention the social, political, economic, and cultural differences inherent to their formation as a country, nation, or state. These differences 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 human imperfections, as global inhabitants of this planet, we must reach a global agreement: working to live as a community of peoples whose social, religious, cultural, and linguistic differences unite us as earthlings instead of dividing us, is the most intelligent way to coexist in the long-awaited peace.
The emergence of wealthy countries, such as those of developed Europe or the United States of America, to cite two examples, was based on building their wealth through the exploitation of slave labor and the extraction of the most valuable mineral resources from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as was the case with the Spanish and British empires, and the current American empire.
Former Spanish President José Luis Zapatero recently said, “Why discriminate against immigrants?” Spaniards were welcomed in many countries when Spain was poor, and now was the time to repay that historic 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 would look down on immigrants who pick apples in California, help with sanitation when a hurricane hits Florida, and are the bricklayers who build and clean skyscrapers in New York?
Immigrants are the ones who do the hardest jobs, and at the same time, the lowest paid. Immigrants are the ones who keep the population growing, because nationals have few offspring or don’t want them to live better, according to some.
We were born to be happy, but some people, filled 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, kind, caring people, 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 like the US, Canada, the UK, Spain, China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, where large corporations like Apple, Walmart, Amazon, Microsoft, Nestlé, among others, could not exist or accumulate wealth without the labor of the less fortunate.
And there are people with great political power, but they lack 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 have no peace in their hearts.
I’m not saying that all politicians or the wealthy in rich countries are the same, because some of them have proven not to be part of the D pack.
I’m not saying that all politicians or wealthy people in rich countries are the same, because some of them have proven not to be part of the Donald Trump and Elon Musk pack, but those who sow hatred should know that they will reap social storms.
Some surnames may have accumulated a lot of wealth, but not the accumulated happiness to fuel spiritual energy, which moves toward the noblest sentiments within the societies most open to the needy. They need to be reminded that happy people don’t hurt anyone, even if we’re not perfect.
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