We asked my ten-year-old niece what she imagines doing when she is an adult and she told us, “I would like to do something that improves the world, something in the Amazon, for example.” She could have said she would want to be a pianist, a golfer, a veterinarian, a teacher, an actress, something related to the things she likes. She is aware that it is still too early to know what path life will take and take her (and, by the way, she has never set foot in the Amazon). However, it already has the noblest aspiration in all training, in all personal growth: learn to improve what you have received, live to improve what you have encountered. From a still childish naivety, but also from that touching confidence in the future that one has at the age of ten, the girl could have said save, save the world. But he said he was getting better. It was exciting because of its lucidity and because its response is a safe passage to possibility, to hope, to the illusion that we lose over the years, that the system strives to make us lose, it suits it. When wear and tear, disappointment and fatigue make us believe that there is nothing left we can do, we must remember that there are ten-year-old girls thinking about improving the inherited disaster. Perhaps many of us do not have that much time left to truly improve the world, but my niece’s beautiful aspiration reminded me of the writer Gabriela Wiener and her new novel, titled Atusparia: “We must fall in love again with the idea of revolution.”
“I have written this novel thinking about adding to the romanticization of struggle and disobedience. Continuing to think about possible worlds, about us, is what has been pushing humanity. The world will probably end in the abyss, but we need to continue dreaming of utopias, of justice, of good living, brotherhood and everything that has undoubtedly been at the seed of revolutionary processes. I think we have to continue believing in how we started, in how that fire was lit.” In Wiener’s words I see what my niece wants and everything I would want for her, in addition to health: the idea of revolution, falling in love with the idea of revolution, the dream, utopia, passion, essential for change the world, which can only be romantic. With Wiener I claim that romanticism because I want for the girl that of the flame that ignites ideas, that of the seed that drives them, that of the brotherhood that makes them grow. I want to fall in love with that idea again, I want the girl to fall in love with that idea.
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