One cannot help but be joyful with the triumph of the young Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios.
HAVANA TIMES – At my age, many commercial trivialities no longer arouse interest, even if they dazzle, like a beauty contest. And not because I wouldn’t say I don’t like beauty. Although it may be, as some disrespectful young people say… when you reach old age, it is to walk with the gravedigger behind you. As everything that is born dies, all of us, at any age, have a gravedigger behind us…
Indeed, I am always interested in everything related to my country, such as the triumph of the Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios, because it is also out of the ordinary and trivial. How can one not be moved by the victory of this girl? Those who have lost their sensibility, which is to live half alive, cannot be moved.
With everything we know about how beauty is commercialized, about the natural female vanity, and the legitimate aspirations of women worldwide with these contests, one cannot help but feel happiness for the triumph of this young Nicaraguan. And, why not say it, also feel healthy joy at seeing a whole people euphoric, as they have not been in many years, because they have lacked reasons to rejoice.
A well-deserved joy. Just as young Palacios deserves all the tributes that Nicaraguans can give her, people are still paying tribute to her from the moment the news was instantly known on the Internet, which does not allow to ignore events of any importance or delay their dissemination. The Internet also offered and continues to provide images of the demonstrations of jubilation of the Nicaraguans for the success of their beautiful compatriot. This is not petty patriotism nor parochialism but a noble human feeling of solidarity.
If someone does not feel it or does not want to understand it as such, it does not matter. It is a natural fact that there is no unanimity in everything. But it is unnatural to refuse to understand it and instead show unjustified resentment against those who understand it genuinely and sincerely.
One of the obsessions of an older adult is not to pay attention to the nonsense that some public figures say daily just because they have the means to say it. Something that does not surprise anyone either. That is what freedom of speech is for. The problem is that this freedom is taken away from others. And since this is so, at least we aspire to the right to listen to ideas, even if we do not share them. To listen to news with some originality, not just a gruesome adjectivization of everything and against everything that exists.
This substantive—adjectivization—just came out of me, and it seems necessary to remember the cultural ill-effect of the bad habit of adjectivizing everything for no reason; that is, using qualifying adjectives (in this case, disqualifying adjectives) to try to devalue a fact, a phrase, a sentence, or people. And this is worse when they do not match reality. Then, with these adject