A Floresta

How much is a lifetime worth? How much is my help worth? How much is one person's help to another worth? A bottle of water? The last bottle of water on the last day of our era? If the last bottle of drinking water in the world were yours, what would you do with it? What if that water were our time? What if that bottle were your idea of tradition? Don't you feel that we are facing a moment in time when, if we are not open-minded, few of our traditions will be passed on to future generations?
As if tradition could preserve time throughout a lifetime. Beyond our lifetime. The lives before our parents and grandparents, but also those of our children and grandchildren. What connects ancestors and descendants to a place? What is invisible in the thread of this mysterious transmission? Does tradition exist only in human beings or also in the rest of Nature? Where? In all bodies in motion? What tradition will pass on in this 21st century? When the rupture of languages is so great and so vast that it is structured by emptiness, by the lack of tradition and by those who are far from urban centres? Young people already belong to the World, really! Tradition, sometimes rigid in its passage, does not allow itself to be permeable to the present. If this continues in the austerity of passage, what remains? Does it pass? Can we not have conversations ‘about’? And do we not know that everything is cyclical and returns to the authentic in us?
As if tradition could preserve time throughout a lifetime. Beyond our lifetime. The lives before our parents and grandparents, but what are we talking about when we talk about tradition? Power? Strong desire? Rigidity? Human beings and everything around us are in motion. Life moves us, we are moved by it. Do we establish dialogue? Even for those who are younger? For those who bring other ways of receiving and showing? ... How about listening to others, since their lives have been and are completely different since technology came along? Has evolution entered through our doors, windows, and cracks? Where children and teenagers have the arduous task of freeing themselves from a technology that has taken relationships hostage. Do you feel held hostage? Can you no longer live without it? Do you want to live without it? How do you live? This "Floresta" that we are, this diversity of times, contours, textures... ours.