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Apr 09Notions of a Costa Rican family during Holy Week
While in the past weeks I indulged some on the critique to the Tico Modus Vivendi and their particular approach to the national religious holidays –however identified I personally felt to the season this year particularly- I wish have no other partial view but that of outright upsetness… again.
Firstly I had been presented on the 12 o`clock news, and later, also written on the papers: it appears as if several local families turned to the few –and already heavily burdened- homes for the elderly to dispose of their…party pooping old and handicapped, supposing of course –and probably rightly so- they wished see themselves freed from the arduous and unbearable task of having to worry for them while they go enjoy the pleasures of natural frugality.
Such a plainly amorous and warm note immediate caught my eye and ear and it seemed unfeasible to me anyone would dare present so unholy a thing during a time when Ticos are already known to squander and belittle the few remaining principles which the season had always pressed to strengthen. But of course!, wholesomeness of character has never been our forte, yet, I believed of all permissible hedonism, none could ever be so blatant as to strike directly to one of our most desecrated minorities: the elderly.
It amused me to have reporters bathe with reprimands the few fools who engaged in such objectionable a-thing, and in my very human heart an uncanny sense of violated justice arose like ashes fly lightly with a sudden breeze. Evidently those responsible for the centers raised their voices to the heavens calling for anyone who reckoned the possibility –or should I say ignominy- to refrain from doing so as, they had not the resources not the patience to tolerate the grievance to the institutions and their souls.
Shame on you! (i do hope some of you read it!)