I have written countless times on the subject, although there are countless sensations and situations experienced in the sphere of each personality. But there is an evidence, and it is that empty chair for the one who is no longer there and who completed us as people and has given us so many sensations and feelings. Despite this, they are still alive and tattooed on our skin and soul. I remember when a mother who had lost her daughter in a train accident, and after denying the reality and affirming that it was not her daughter, but the daughter of a friend, was overcome by syncope and desolation. Just tell her that when she was pregnant she perceived her daughter and did not see her; in the same way, she will not see her physically, but she will feel her deep in her heart, just as she felt her daughter in her entrails.
The calm of a few words became a miracle. But there is another empty chair syndrome, and that is to be next to someone at a celebration who does not empathise at all with our being and thinking. It becomes like a family or company ritual, wishing it would be over soon and freeing oneself. Christmas is a time that represents togetherness, but a date is a date, and any day in harmony and connection has the same value. Let us remind doctors, health workers, police officers, that their Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner will be something magical like Christmas, and that is giving life back to critically ill people who need it. That is the best message of Christmas love and becoming family to the suffering.
As a child I saw how my father saved a young man who had drowned in the river, and despite telling him not to insist because he was dead, he went on and brought him back to life. I looked at him like a hero when he told me that the beat of that heart was the beat of God and that in that Venezuelan emigrant he had seen the face of God. Nothing could be further away, but in those who are very close and need a hand, and that plant that heals more than the medicine itself. The meaning of Christmas is birth, the emergence of something new, and many are born again because of the struggle of great medical professionals. Great delicacies do not matter because any day is Christmas and sharing moments of magic, light and love.
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