I was saying good-bye to a friend at the funeral home when I saw a relative of the deceased, four or five, making circles around a newspaper that one of them was holding. They seemed to be reading a news story with great interest. What will happen, will it happen, I wondered. Fire, attack, earthquake, attack on Congress? I have an inexhaustible catalog of mental disasters. I never went on the news hoping to hear good news. It’s not me that made me this way, it’s the world. I sneaked up on the group, whose gestures oscillated between seriousness and laughter. Someone who piqued my interest invited me to approach.
-What’s happening? -I wanted.
-We read today’s horoscope for the dead.
– And what does he say?
The one holding the newspaper again lowered his eyes and read:
– “It will be full, it will feel full, full, full, more alive than ever before, more daring, more daring, more fearless. Maybe it’s time to start that journey that has been put off for so long because of completely unfounded fears.
Moreover Of course I had to hold back my laughter. In order not to attract the attention of the widow who was nearby, who might have noticed something, I left the group and went to look at my friend’s body in the window. The truth was, he had a satisfied expression on his face, the expression of someone who had achieved success over time, not someone who won a purely luck lottery. Perhaps as he was referred to as Enrique, he felt truly exuberant, full, full, full, and also daring, daring, and fearless. He got rid of the diseases he complained about a lot. in the last days of his illnessperhaps he had reached an incomprehensible ecstasy from this side of the glass.
Then, for a moment, I thought of death as a journey, like that journey that Enrique had put off for years (like all living things) and finally dared to take. Before leaving, I wrote in the condolence book The first lines of Journey to IthacaThe famous poem of Cavafis.
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