The Corner Of Pepa: Aquí y ahora (Here and Now)

Today am I who write the blog. eritacus has gone at the dentist.

I want to explain a history that heard it yesterday by the radio. Is much hot in Barcelona these days and in my small flat is very difficult sleep because the bedroom gives on the south. The sun hits strong the exterior wall of the building and makes that inside the flat is unsupportable, above all during the night.

Of all forms, yesterday I was giving turns and turns in the bed but didn’t can sleep. I looked the alarm clock and were 3 o’clock in the morning.

- 3 o’clock in the morning! Joder! (Fuck!) I thought
(I say many many swears and have become mentals signs of punctuation).
- Joder!

(The joder arrives at me to the heart much more that the English fuck because is necessary that I feel it deep in the body to say. I want to say that is not only a word but also a deeply experience and a true manifestation of the bad-being that I am passing in that moment. I don’t say the English fuck is not the same for the Anglo speakers but to me the joder reaches to me more).

Well ... the history ¿where I was? Ah yes.

I put the radio. Sometimes I make this if I can’t to sleep. There was a programme type call center and the Doctor Jorge Corbacho, psychologist from Argentina, answered the questions of the public. I did not make much case until called a man with the interesant history following:

- Hola ¿Cómo te llamas?
- Pedro
- ¿De dónde llamas?
- de Guadalajara

Pedro explain that he don’t stop to see famous historical personalities who appear in all parts and in the places most normals of the world. He began to tell that he was in the super with his woman when he see the Ayatollah Jomeini deliberating between a powder detergent of a leader brand and the own brand of the super.

- Conchita, he whisper in a strong voice and astonished to him wife,
- Conchita!. Look! See you who is this man?”

The Conchita lifts up her head from the scourers of offer, rumage in her bag and takes the glasses. She put the glasses and look in a mistake direction.
- No is the manager?” she ask to Pedro.

- No him, no him, contest the Pedro.

- The man with the beard, the eyebrows, the eyes colds and penetrants and the turbant!

Conchita sees the suppose Ayatollah and say
- Well, sure he is not of this district!”

- Is the Ayatollah Jomeini! insists Pedro not beleiving, with a very strong voice and very very few discretion.
- He of the revolution Islámic in Irak!

Conchita looks and looks in the archives of her memory but the life with she husband has exhausted and crack the hard disc. She stays in blank.
- What revolution Islámic? she ask.

Pedro leaves the subject, put the three-for-two promotion rubbers gloves in the basket and try to forget. He would to forget too but the next day in his car when he waited that change the traffic lights beside the social security building, he listen a loud noise and a woman stop next to he on a Harley and smile. Is the Mother Teresa.

He knew that was a Harley for the noise of the motor.

The Doctor Corbacho say is necessary a long treatment and suggest Pedro that manifestations like this of historics personalities normally are the result of the incapacities of the individual to can live in the present (is to say, the here and now) and it is the consquence of complexes like the guilty, the perfectionism, an excess of preoccupation .... is necessary the help of a specialist and habitually is treated by:

1) Technique of respiration and tranquilling the nervios.
2) Antianxiolytics
3) Hit the head with a big rock for to remember the present and for don’t think in the past or the future.