2022- 4th blog: Time Travel to the past
I think I have commented on this about three times in my life, and it may be morbid, however, for me, to travel back in time would inevitably be to travel to Santiago, Chile during the UP (1970-1973), the dictatorship (1973-1989) and its resistance (1973-1990).
This is because of the significance this period has for me, its impact on my family's history, and consequently, on who I am.
The reasons why I would travel to the past are not fleeting reasons or a mere whim, but convictions, so yes, I would like to stay there. I believe that having contributed to the construction of a new society and its subsequent defense, is something that I am also willing to do now, but times have changed, so I would have liked to have been a contribution at that time.
I think I have mentioned my dad quite a bit in these blogs, so I guess it is understood that he is a special person in my life jajaja, and not just because he is my dad, but because of his quality as a person. The stories he tells me and the stories my uncles tell me (they are not uncles of blood, but of life, brothers of struggle for my dad) when they all get together... to think that all the people that make up, in part, my family, have given something of themselves to fight injustice and fighting for an alternative, make me who I am today.
While my dad is my inspiration, I have also forged my own path in college, which has made our paths to get things done different and often conflicting. However, I believe that just as I respect and admire his work, my father also respects and values mine, and he has let me know this on my last birthdays, telling me "as a father, of course I am afraid that something will happen to you, but I am not the one to tell you anything, because when I was 15 years old I carried a rifle in my hands".
Although the possibility of structural changes seems distant, it is never impossible. If it is necessary, it is therefore possible.
The reasons why I would travel to the past are not fleeting reasons or a mere whim, but convictions, so yes, I would like to stay there. I believe that having contributed to the construction of a new society and its subsequent defense, is something that I am also willing to do now, but times have changed, so I would have liked to have been a contribution at that time.
I think I have mentioned my dad quite a bit in these blogs, so I guess it is understood that he is a special person in my life jajaja, and not just because he is my dad, but because of his quality as a person. The stories he tells me and the stories my uncles tell me (they are not uncles of blood, but of life, brothers of struggle for my dad) when they all get together... to think that all the people that make up, in part, my family, have given something of themselves to fight injustice and fighting for an alternative, make me who I am today.
While my dad is my inspiration, I have also forged my own path in college, which has made our paths to get things done different and often conflicting. However, I believe that just as I respect and admire his work, my father also respects and values mine, and he has let me know this on my last birthdays, telling me "as a father, of course I am afraid that something will happen to you, but I am not the one to tell you anything, because when I was 15 years old I carried a rifle in my hands".
Although the possibility of structural changes seems distant, it is never impossible. If it is necessary, it is therefore possible.
It was possible years ago and as the final song of the Cantata de Santa María de Iquique says "ustedes que ya escucharon la historia que se contó, no sigan allí sentados pensando que ya pasó, no basta solo el recuerdo, el canto no bastará, no basta solo el lamento (...) quizás mañana o pasado, o bien en un tiempo más, la historia que han escuchado, de nuevo sucederá, es Chile un país tan largo, mil cosas pueden pasar, si es que no nos preparamos, resueltos para luchar".
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