From our partner Irene Tarragó
One more month I face a blank sheet of paper in which to express my ideas, experiences, fears and hopes that are the same as those of a person who does not have epilepsy.
Because human beings want and long for them to love us, be accepted in the group, valued, etc., be as we are, have the disease we have or the color of hair we have.
Because we start from the base that we are all equal. The bricklayer, the rich man, the astronaut, the seamstress, the gypsy, the doctor, the person with diabetes, epilepsy, ALS, blindness or arthrosis. And if we know that we are all the same and that we all crave the same, why do we try so hard not to admit those who think differently or have a disease or have an origin different from ours? Because we don’t put ourselves in each other’s shoes.
Because looking at one another’s navel is very complacent. And forgetting a little about yourself and looking at each other as equals is a bit more complicated. But it’s all about putting on and exercising. And it is very beneficial for those who exercise because opening the mind makes you much smarter.
In this month of October, when the next 12th day we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, the virgin of my land, Aragon. Me, although I am a Catholic because I am baptized, the truth is that I exercise little because the Catholic church does not convince me anything. But I have a special devotion to the Pilarika and it is to the few that I pray and pray for the people I love. Well, this month, I challenge you to try to exercise empathy and open yourself up to meet new people, with other diseases, with other origins or with other ideas. It will be our contribution to calm the tense atmosphere that exists today in the world, starting with the noise made by our politicians and ending with the wars that are developing today all over the planet. We are human beings and we don’t look like one.
Irene Tarragó Pascau
