This one is some weeks late :D
Last week in class we saw Picasso´s "Guernica". This painting depicts the German bombing of the city with the same name during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. It certainly is a complex and geniously made masterpiece, but instead of keep me thinking about arts and all its possible interpretations, it brought me thoughts about human kind and all the suffering we can cause or can´t stop. "No, la pintura no está hecha para decorar las habitaciones. Es un instrumento de guerra ofensivo y defensivo contra el enemigo." (Pablo Picasso)
I don´t know if you´re aware of, but my mother works in a hospital as a nurse and I´m working as a intern Criminal Lawer. Thus, I´ve been seeing, during this year, lots of people that are living in deep suffering: sick people that can´t afford nor it´s offered to them the ideal treatment, and enjailed people that, for the same reasons, can´t make use of their Constitutional right of defense. In our jobs we try as much as possible but it´s painful not being able to do enough to alleviate their suffering.
Having this said I´d like to reflect today about how we can use all this learning and this hours that we spend studying to make someone else happy or to compensate difficulties of their life. Teachers do this everyday, they spread knowledge and responsibility in their work. What can we students do? One thing I realized is that, first of all, we´re supposed to learn, read, talk and live as much as possible in order to get prepared to do whatever may be possible and not to waste this blessed life we have.
Last week in class we saw Picasso´s "Guernica". This painting depicts the German bombing of the city with the same name during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. It certainly is a complex and geniously made masterpiece, but instead of keep me thinking about arts and all its possible interpretations, it brought me thoughts about human kind and all the suffering we can cause or can´t stop. "No, la pintura no está hecha para decorar las habitaciones. Es un instrumento de guerra ofensivo y defensivo contra el enemigo." (Pablo Picasso)
I don´t know if you´re aware of, but my mother works in a hospital as a nurse and I´m working as a intern Criminal Lawer. Thus, I´ve been seeing, during this year, lots of people that are living in deep suffering: sick people that can´t afford nor it´s offered to them the ideal treatment, and enjailed people that, for the same reasons, can´t make use of their Constitutional right of defense. In our jobs we try as much as possible but it´s painful not being able to do enough to alleviate their suffering.
Having this said I´d like to reflect today about how we can use all this learning and this hours that we spend studying to make someone else happy or to compensate difficulties of their life. Teachers do this everyday, they spread knowledge and responsibility in their work. What can we students do? One thing I realized is that, first of all, we´re supposed to learn, read, talk and live as much as possible in order to get prepared to do whatever may be possible and not to waste this blessed life we have.
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Hi, Sérgio! I agree completely with you. I also worry too much about this question you pointed out. All of us, I believe, have a social commitment, as a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, or even a student. We have the commitment of changing the cruel reality where many people live, and we also. People die every day because they have absolutely nothing to eat; they live in sub-human condition and we, in the 21st century!, continue ignoring this, living in a fantasy and illusion just to try to survive in this jungle. But we ask how. How can we change something? What is the power I have? I just know we have power, Sérgio, but I really don’t know how do to my scream go through the world and, the principle, make people see and feel the face of the absurd. Nowadays, I try to be creative; but it’s difficult. Thus, at least, I assume the commitment of never be quiet and to try, always, to disconcert selfish and foolish discourse that is so impregnated in the mind and in the heart of, mainly, the present youth.
Like Picasso did, we have also to express our thoughts and indignations in relation to everything. How we lost this habit!
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