SYNCHRONICITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CHANCE
Although it was Sunday and I usually go to the beach on weekends, with each passing hour the morning had become gradually somber and rainy. After walking the dog under the trees in order not get too wet, I came back home knowing that the rest of the day would be spent at home. After five months of coronavirus and aloneness, some memories had become ever more frequent. Like for instance the memory of the friends I had left behind when coming to the United States in 1977. Those are the friends of youth that I usually meet once a year when I travel to Patagonia, in the south of Argentina. Those are people that I met when I was twenty something and with whom I had a deeper intimacy than with my own parents. Those are the friends I have sometimes called in the middle of the night when things in my life did not go well and I felt desperately vulnerable. But going back to that Sunday afternoon, I felt a deep nostalgia of that circle of people who were no longer part of my life. With no doubts...