Eternity – Galerna

Salmo 90:2

“Earlier than the mountains had been born, and varieties the earth and the world, from the century till the century, you’re God.”

The idea of eternity persecutes me since childhood. My non secular training, added to my childhood curiosity, already fantasized with a peaceable state of everlasting life. There isn’t any one who has not questioned about this concept mendacity a summer time evening underneath the celebs, or to seek advice from the house that opens infinite about their eyes, effectively to delimit it briefly. On eternity they’ve theorized theologians equivalent to St. Augustine, physicists equivalent to Newton or Hawking, philosophers equivalent to Plato or household as my brother -in -law, who at every Christmas Eve dinner insteads to inform, with none grace, the identical joke, a protracted, horrible, to which he provides, to our misfortune, a remaining clarification when nobody laughs and an uncomfortable silence happens. Eternity, expensive pals, is a joke of me (or his) brother -in -law. You recognize what I’m speaking about.

Eternity additionally has quite a bit to do with intercourse, particularly with youth onanism. And never due to the length of the act, if not due to the lasting of the punishment with which the clergymen of the 70s threatened us if we practiced it. In the event you had the unhealthy luck of dying in full activity, with out confessing your sin, you had been going straight to hell. And there started eternity. A pal clearly defined the priest of his college:

“Hear, Quique, in the event you contact, in the event you commit that impure act, you’ll go to hell for all eternity.” Do you need to know what eternity is, Quique? Do you need to know what awaits you within the Averno? Think about a gorrioncillo, small, swish, with its tiny peak and its wire legs. After which consider the Earth, the planet the place you reside, in its forty thousand kilometers of circumference; Properly, that little chook begins to peck exactly right here, within the schooly The following, and so forth till the city ends and arrives on the outskirts, the countryside, to the mountains, to the mountains, and passes to a different metropolis, to a different nation, to a different continent, and itch the whole Everest, to the summit, and the Himalayas, the mountain ranges, the seas, the oceans, the rivers …

Take an entire flip to the earth, with out fainting, and returns to the place to begin: the courtyard of the varsity. Do you perceive, quique? Do you see the sparrow? Do you see it? It has surrounded the earth and can begin over, as if the world was an apple and the sparrow surrounded it pecking it repeatedly, and a thousand instances extra, and a trillion trillion instances to utterly put on it out.

And now comes crucial, pay attention, quique, get this within the mollara: when the sparrow has ended with all of the earth, eternity won’t even start. That’s what awaits you.

Quique, my pal, confessed that each time somebody talks about eternity, he sees the gorrioncillo picando and chopping. After all, the worry of everlasting conviction lasted what lasted, the eternity of not masturbating appeared for much longer.

My spouse’s idea about eternity is, a priori, way more enjoyable than ready for the height of a shiny to finish with all of the earth spinning and extra turns. She imagines eternity because the cinema room. Purchases popcorn, you’re feeling, you accommodate the very best, and see, one behind the opposite, in actual time, all of the lives of all of the individuals who have inhabited, inhabit and inhabit the earth. I entertained the calculation and in line with the most recent estimates they’ve lived on our planet about 108,000 million people. Every of those film lives, by no means higher, will final on common about 60 years, that’s, we’re going to go to a steady session, equivalent to people who we spliced ​​from kids from Tarzan and Maciste, greater than six billion years.

“And what do you consider the film?” A pal will ask you when leaving the cinema.

“Lengthy, however entertaining plain, desirous to see the second half.”

I don’t rule out that amongst all these lives it’s frankly attention-grabbing, even enjoyable (that of Ábalos doesn’t lose it), however I wager that the majority can be extra boring than a Tarkovski film, the favourite filmmaker of the athletics (you can not perceive it).

In my brother -in -law, in the midst of life, when he begins along with his everlasting Christmas joke, we may have fallen asleep.

Now that I give it some thought, I’ve to ask my spouse if the animals additionally enter the viewing, it’s attainable that we have now to see (as if it had been a kind of documentaries of the two to take a nap) the lifetime of the chook chopping the earth. Eternity seeing eternity.

Anyway, what we had been going to, that the very best is but to return. I’ve written about eternity simply to remind them of a few issues: the primary is that point flying and immediately ten years have been printed since my first article in La Galerna was printed, a contented decade that I needed to have a good time with all those that have been effectively learn by considered one of my texts; And the second, and way more essential, that lasts what lasts eternity, is in a month, ten or 4 trillions of years, with the gorrioncillo chopping the land, or with the continual session movie about to finish, there’ll all the time be a Madrid participant remembering a culé or an antimadridist that Barcelona paid an arbitral vp for twenty years (a minimum of) greater than eight million and a half million of euros.

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