Opinion |Spain is a party

Nota del editor: Wendy Guerra es escritora cubanofrancesa y colaboradora de CNN en Español. Sus artículos han aparecido en medios de todo el mundo, como El País, The New York Times, el Miami Herald, El Mundo y La Vanguardia. Entre sus obras literarias más destacadas se encuentran “Ropa interior” (2007), “Nunca fui primera dama” (2008), “Posar desnuda en La Habana” (2010) y “Todos se van” (2014). Su trabajo ha sido publicado en 23 idiomas. Los comentarios expresados en esta columna pertenecen exclusivamente a la autora. Mira más en cnne.com/opinion

(Spanish CNN) - From very early I knew that Europe was like my house.All awards and decorations that I have received have been awarded from the Old Continent, my books saw the light in several languages and editorials in this part of the world.Although life took me on the other hand, I always thought to live in a place where there are laws that preserve the human being beyond dogmas, political fashions, social castes or fragile economic schemes.

From a young age he arrived in Spain and felt in his own flesh that this society was closer to the social utopia that promised us in our unequal and absurd tropical socialism.After the pandemic I returned to my beloved Barcelona, the city of prodigies, where the Latin American ‘boom’ was born and every April, in Sant Jordi, a book and a rose are given to friends.

I have felt Barna different, most people pass with a terrible humor, it is difficult not to feel bad in taxis and restaurants for the rust, sudden answers, hopelessness are drawn on their faces.Perhaps it is the political fractures, or the fierce confinement that in this part of the world has not given truce.I notice that they speak little or nothing between them, I feel that they try the exercise of the reunion.Tapabocas, fear, political differences, and that fear of infection that prevents sharing a simple smile in the news of the newspaper, where even very little the newspaper occurred in Catalan or in Spanish.Only in Sant Cugat, in a lovely market for antiques, I felt again in Catalonia, because that other angry Barcelona is not what I want to take in memory.

I escaped Madrid trying to find calm, and there I came across a new strain of the omicron virus.I went to the hospital and took my French passport to be treated as one more European, but the situation is this: how do not pay social security, you have private insurance or pay directly in euros for the consultations, they serve you but you are going home with an invoice.

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Although the days are sunny, I am cold, I walk to the small store of the neighborhood to buy a scarf, but it is closed because it is the time of eating.

Although Madrid shows much more flourishing and prosperous, most young people are milleurists, they live with their parents or emigrate to look for a better life.Many university graduates prefer to make oppositions for a public office.Being autonomous in this society borrows you with the treasury from the zero minute.

This is also Spain today, but people confess and try to fix the world in bars and restaurants.Many are unhappy with alliances to govern, and say it clearly, not everyone wants a formula with vox or we can, and they can discuss it heatedly.Television continues to go to Raffaella Carrá and Rocío Jurado, time seems arrested in Spain.

Night and laugh in the streets of Madrid or San Sebastián is the antidote against economic and social problems.It is not good to see about work or call to consult labor issues on weekends or holidays, but there are many bridges and summer and winter holidays are long.

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Spain is a party and has two faces, those who celebrate whatever reality, because their economy will never be affected and those who celebrate, even if they do not reach them to finish the month.From bridge in bridge, bar in bar, because, ultimately, on this earth, celebrating is a way of being alive.

In the end this this country works and in many cases, such as public transport, for example, as a clock.Then I wonder: work to live or live to work?