CHANGING WHAT WE ARE

Eduardo Galeano, always lucid and provocative, wrote:

WE ARE WHAT WE DO TO CHANGE WHAT WE ARE.

By re-reading again Galeano’s writings, I felt like closing the phrase itself as an eternal litany, as a kind of Moebius strip that would be expressed like this:

WE ARE

WHAT WE DO

TO CHANGE WHAT

WE ARE

WHAT WE DO

TO CHANGE WHAT

WE ARE

WHAT WE DO

TO CHANGE WHAT

WE ARE

WHAT WE DO

TO CHANGE WHAT

WE ARE

WHAT WE DO

TO CHANGE WHAT

WE ARE

…

Interpreted like that, there are one thousand and one questions that, if we are in flux or desire for change, it’s worth wondering.

What are we doing to change?

What do we want to be?

Are we doing what we have to do to be who we want to be?

Do we, in fact and in truth, want to change?

Are we willing to stop what we are for what we want to be?

What are we? What am I? What are you?

Does it take us something other than what makes us who we are?

Etcetera.

Non banal questions in specific moments of life, which have their axis in a truism so obvious that we usually ignore: if you do not do, you hardly change. If you do nothing new or different, it is difficult to be and to live something new or different, as Albert Einstein repeated.

Shall we do?

Shall we change?

Do we want to be?

What do you want to be?

Questions for those ourselves of today and those of tomorrow.

Kisses and hugs,

Álex