WHAT IF…
What if what is happening today in Ukraine is happening tomorrow in the United States?
Can we imagine ourselves as refugees, seeking shelter in Mexico or Canada, our only two neighbors, unlike Ukraine, which has six?
No one is thinking about this possibility and therefore will not be ready for it. But what if?
I doubt that anyone thought that this scandal between Russia and Ukraine would reach the proportion that we are witnessing 100 days after it started.
It seems that nowadays anything can happen, whether we like it or not. It is at this point that we realize and understand how vulnerable each of one ius is. Is there a lesson to be learned from this situation?
Who can help us, since we are so far from our allies, whom we considered our friends. Who will come to our rescue when this potential help is confronted with the retaliation of our enemy?
Yes, we will fight, but unfortunately we were caught with our pants down and had no time to react. Just like today, the rest of the world will sympathize with our predicament, blame our enemy with words, only words that have no effect, as we see today in Ukraine.
They say that it is better to learn from history because it often repeats itself, but where is the wise man who could have seen it coming? Where is our intelligence since we have always considered ourselves smarter and stronger than the rest of the world?
The answer is simple: we are like all other human beings with our illusions, our weaknesses, our shortcomings and our deficiencies. It took this kind of sad situation to wake us up. It took this for us to understand that we are not the Superman we thought we were.
This is the lesson we will take away, the cautionary tale, the warning, the panic button we never thought we would have to use. Caution and prudence should have been our guide, but we were so sure of ourselves. Too sure of our superiority, our dominance, our supremacy, our preeminence. We have always lived in the heights, looking down on others, and now... What happened to our advantage?
We might as well not talk any more, or rather not write any more, because it is becoming depressing, deplorable and even gloomy. So let's go back and hope that this Ukrainian tragedy will find a settlement, an outcome that should be beneficial even though this term is in bad taste.
And life goes on with the wish that as humans, we owe it to ourselves to learn from what life brings us, whether it is evil or harm, if not goodness and generosity.
