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Episodio 88 - No esperes que sea demasiado tarde · El Mural del Alma

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Welcome to the mural of the soul this time of reflections with their own style
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here where they are listening to me on any podcast platform or even on YouTube
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Podcast, Iheart, Audible or Amazon Music. Everywhere we are practically with you
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enjoying these reflections in your own style. My name is David Fernando and Guera.
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I' m your host. Thank you for the support with the reproductions
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that you make and spread. Share these episodes so that many people can be
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built in some special way with this perhaps clumsy attempt to change the world using
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reflections and talking to you in a very familiar way, in a very humane
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way, believe me that every time I finish recording each of these episodes,
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apart from doing the corresponding review in the case of video podcasts, apart from
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making it post- video production, which always takes a long time. But
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in the midst of the journey of this whole affair, for I also learn,
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I learn from what I prepare, and that' s cool I love
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not only to do this for you, but also to learn, and not
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just to say no. I accept it not simply from the little I know,
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because that is a feedback to you, because your servant also learns.
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Thanks for the belt, thanks for the feedback. The suggestions are very important
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to make a better project and good we go forward. Welcome, look at
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this interesting story I just found. The poor mother was dying in all directions.
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Telegrams had come out calling his children by his bedside, seeking the fastest
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means. These young men were eagerly flying, wishing and begging that the life
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of the dear sick woman be prolonged until her arrival. Oh, sir,
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let' s get in time for one last look, one last handshake,
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one last caress. They came in silence, gathered around his bed. They
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looked at those worn hands that worked so hard for them the wrinkled forehead because
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of the daily task by theirs, the eyes in which they never saw more
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than affection and sweetness, could not avoid the anguish of their hearts nor shuddered
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by bowing the greater. She kissed the old lady' s face and said,
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" Dear Mother, you have been so good to us that we want
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to tell you how much we love you and thank you" The almost closed
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eyes already opened and his face lit up. Thank you, son. I
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' m touched to know. You never told me before. It was his
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last words and look at how he closes the story I just read. The
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moral of this sad account is very simple. If you love your mother,
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beat her today Don' t wait till tomorrow It could be late. Well,
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this is the story that leads us to today' s reflection. And
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look, I think in some episode the mural of the soul, we had
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already dealt with this topic and I have to emphasize it and I want to
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address it not only to the honor and memory of our parents, but also
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to the beings around us. Look, how important it is to understand that
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the people around us are not going to be forever. I mean, I
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mean, since we all have an expiration date, we' re all going
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to die someday, because that' s right, that' s the life
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cycle. Look, as much as one tries to get some ancient treatment,
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that' s great, it' s fantastic, or to have a balanced
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diet to exercise. That can delay and make it something that' s inevitable
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and it' s the fact that one day we' re going to leave
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this land, one day we' re going to die. Yeah, that
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' s the truth. But while there is life, there is hope,
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while we have breath in our lungs, we must enjoy life by putting it
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in the hands of God, always in the hands of Father God, to
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say, Lord in your hands I put this day forgive me. I'
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m, I' m bad at it, I' m greedy. Well,
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I' ll forgive myself. And, as I said in this podcast,
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always recognize that one is wrong, that one has failed, and recognize
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God and know, the good news is that God does not accuse us.
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Just like that, I wanted to horr you not just he hugs us and
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tells us well, a son you fell we go forward. I forgive you
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life goes on, you' re human, you fail, but thank you
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for recognizing your mistakes I' m your father. I love you too much.
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You have no idea how much. I love you and the lord is
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like that. God is like that. He loves us the Bible says that
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even in spite of our infidelities, to remain faithful. But that' s
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the thing. The theme is to value our own. So, first of
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all, she honors her father and mother. Exodus two thousand twelve in the
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Bible says it does not honor your father and your mother so that your days
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may be prolonged in the land that God gives you. That says the same
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scripture and in the new Testament, in one of the Pauline letters, reinforces
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it with a rather interesting mitigating and honors your father and your mother, which
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is the first commandment with promise to do well and to be of long life
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on earth? Interesting, that doesn' t honor your father and your mother,
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which is the first commandment with promise to go well with you and be
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long- lived on earth? That' s Ephesians Six, where it'
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s two, I read it to you in the Catholic version. God does
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not speak today the first commandment containing a promise is this honor to your father
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and mother so that you may be happy if you live a long life on
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earth. Look, this is very complicated to explain, but I' m
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going to do my best to do it. The Bible does not tell us
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honor your father and your mother under these conditions, if you behaved well hon
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relo, if you did not behave well, do not honor it. Do
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not vilate it does not denote such conditions simple and simply honor them point what
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were bad parents with me, which were such a thing, because I must
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honor them. You don' t have to honor them. Simple basic of
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them. God takes care of it. Simply one fulfills this divine principle.
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Honor your father and mother. The story I just read is quite tremendous,
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because they are children who even the last estertors, that is to say,
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as far as the last of life this lady, this mom, there,
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did remember her. You don' t have to remember her all the time.
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It is necessary to remember the old at all times, in all circumstances,
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as far as possible. Yeah, all of a sudden you say no,
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but it' s just that I do it, Fernando, and they
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kind of don' t want to see me like they kind of side me
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up, and that makes me sad. Well, we' re in the
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tech age of whatsapp, for example, telegram. So, well, a
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call, a message, do as humanly possible and do your part, do
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your part. Then nothing simple and simply honor them and I have said it
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in other episodes of this podcast, not honoring parents is not giving them money,
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although if it is the perfect possibility. But honor them with those words
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of affirmation, honor them with those words of affection. And don' t
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bring them any flowers anymore. When I' m in a drawer, in
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a coffin and I' m struck by the question of the veils, the
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epistles, and I want to deal with the matter delicately, because I know
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you listen to me all kinds of audiences. But there is a reality and
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it is that well, beyond the spiritual context, that you have some beliefs
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that I am not going to get into that, but it strikes me that
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there are pictures of the deceased, who died, who is a father,
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who is a mother. And I' m struck by pictures of children crying
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and saying don' t take him away, don' t bury him.
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Take me, take me with you, Mom, take me with you,
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Dad, don' t take him, don' t take him and cry
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and cry. I analyze and forgive you for doing so. That person had
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quality of time and life with his father and his mother. Why, because
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I interpret those tears and that regret, maybe because it doesn' t take
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advantage of my old people and they' re taking them to a vault or
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they' re burying them underground or they' re even taking them to the
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cremation room. I didn' t take the time to ask myself no,
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but well let' s leave it here, because, like I told you,
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it' s a rather delicate matter. The point I want to get
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to is have affections with them when they' re alive, not when they
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' re dead, because there' s the corpse. The human remains in
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a vault are in a drawer, in a coffin. That person no matter
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how much he is there, and I have a special meaning for everyone who
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attends a funeral won' t be able to hear, he won' t
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be able to see. Then let' s have those tokens of affection and
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that honor of our parents. When they' re alive. Let' s
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take advantage of that since Fernando already died. I think what you' re
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saying doesn' t apply my case anymore, because my parents are already dead.
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Now his memory. I have said so in some episodes of the mural
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of the soul honor them remember them with affection. Now let' s move
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on to another topic. Let us enjoy the company of those around us Notice
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that not only was I going to focus on the honor of parents, but
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also on enjoying our loved ones, family, friends, those people who are
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special along the way our partner, those we are married to, that spouse,
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that husband, that wife, as the case may be, let us
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enjoy sharing that quality of life time. And if in the midst of this
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society where it requires us to work enough and our time is absorbed by work
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and all this, but let us take advantage of that time of quality of
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life with each of our loved ones. Let us not wait until they die,
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let us not wait until they may go to another country, to another
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place where we cannot travel. Although of course, as I tell you,
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we are in the technological age where we can even by video call, have
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that contact with them. But there is nothing better than enjoying the physical presence.
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You know, I was remembering the times of the 19th Covid pandemic.
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That virus that was put us in check the whole world and that pandemic lasted
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from the two thousand twenty to the year two thousand twenty- one two thousand
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twenty- two practically and even the moment I am recording this episode of the
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mural of the soul. On March 11, the World Health Organization declared covid
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nineteen as a pandemic, that is, an already virtually global evil. And
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in that time of pandemic, the governments of the world ordered us to be
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quarantined, that is, every family was locked in their homes for prevention and
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to avoid the complications of this virus covid nineteen produced by the microorganism called Sarscop
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two, that sarscop two is a type of coronavirus. Coronavirus isn' t
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a disease, it' s a group, it' s a group of
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bugs, we could put it that way. Among them is dal sarscop two
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producing the covid Disney blah, blah blah. The point is, we weren
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' t allowed physical contact, we weren' t allowed to hug. We
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had to handle something called social distancing, in which, well, each person
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literally gave a distance of two meters, something so I remember and they couldn
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' t approach and everyone with mask, with mouthcaps why. Because the virus
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was transmitted through the mouth, it was a new virus and practically, because
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we were on our way to the unknown. We heard in the news of
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radio, television, social media, the Internet, that the numbers of dead
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and infected by covid nineteen were on the rise. And that disturbs us.
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We were scared for that time with my wife we were confined in our workplace,
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on the radio, in an apartment conditioned as a radio studio, and
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the scene was quite particular, because the streets were alone and all this,
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but I want to focus on the social approach that the covid marked nineteen And
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it is that we did not have that opportunity to hug ourselves, to give
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us a kiss, to shake our hands, but that the greeting code in
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times of pandemic was either fist or elbow with elbow. That was the greeting
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code. No hugs, no gestures of affection, nothing. Why. Because
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at least contact, because it could be that this virus did its thing.
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Now, the covid nineteen is still among us, but it is no longer
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so worrying. You know why it' s already becoming an endemic disease.
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What does that mean is that it is a disease that is practically between us
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and that each person is responsible for self- care or each person is responsible
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for whether or not he or she wants to carry a mask to protect himself
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or herself. Everyone is responsible for their care and health. But those covid
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times were tremendous because, for example, a person died well, either from
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covid or from any other illness, and a mass funeral or burial was not
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allowed, because health regulations said that maximum five people, at least here in
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Colombia, maximum five people could attend a funeral. But, look at the
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curious fact, it was this distance from the coffin. They couldn' t
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be near the coffin why. Because the belief was that if the patient had
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covid nineteen, the virus could still be alive, even though the body was
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decaying and could seriously affect the people around it. In such cases, in
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the first months of the declaration of pandemic. The order was even to cremate
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the bodies to avoid that situation. And there were practically no such mass funeral
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situations because it was complicated. The covid nineteen taught us if I am allowed
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to use the expression to value the company of our close beings. And I
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' m going back to thinking. Then, whenever we have a chance,
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let us appreciate the affection, the affection for the closeness of Dad and Mom
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and our loved ones. Let' s value it Let' s squeeze the
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juice at that always, always, always, always for when the time comes
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to leave, when the time comes for one or those people to die,
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because death is going to touch us all in some way. Some God does
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not want under a disease and or in most cases, how beautiful it would
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be for the natural cause of life, without blame, without disease, because
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the body has already completed the cycle. Yeah. In any case say,
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look you know that I took advantage of that person, I enjoyed it,
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I enjoyed it and I enjoyed his company, his friendship, his closeness,
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his company, the moments of going out, to play, to eat ice
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cream, to dinner, to eat, to do madness within the healthy,
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I did not take advantage of the time. Thank you, God, for
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giving me this man, this woman as a friend, a couple friend that
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I know. Thanks for lending it to me. I' ll live the
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rest of my days remembering him, honoring his memory and good. Thank you,
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sir, because you' re my best friend and I' m closing
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the episode. You' re my best friend, you' re with me
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always and it' s good to have your closeness, sir always. Thank
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you for that. Then morale of today' s reflection. Let' s
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enjoy Mom and Dad' s company. If we have them alive, if
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they are not, let us honor the memory and, above all, and
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this is what makes the difference with other episodes of the mural, let us
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also enjoy our loved ones, loved ones, those who are with us and
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who make us understand that, even when life is complicated and difficult, with
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them life can be fantastic and, above all, honor and glory be to
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God. My name, David, Fernando and Guera, thank you for joining
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me. Share this episode with whoever you want and good as I always say,
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we find ourselves in the next one to write together on the mural of the soul