when you enter firefighter
The first thing they tell you is that you
main objective is to save lives
we try that day by day
However, I would add to this
help people to help the
people both physically and
psychologically and that’s what we try
do when we go to catastrophes
natural as haiti with catastrophes
human like the Syrian war
this past year when I was in lesbos
in Greece
there at night we work in the
beach trying that the rescuer
aquatic we try that nobody but
choke for the day
we slept a little bit very little and then we
we go with the fields both to the field of
memory internment as to the
refugee camps
there among other things What I
impressed me were the looks of the
people
looks like these that tells you a lot and
through those looks
I will try to tell you that he lived there
and how simple there
the first of these looks that I’m going to
tell
it’s a look a little bit anchored in the
past e in that past that not long ago
they lived in their houses and justly
of those houses
I had been told about other
catastrophes
what happens is that when you get there and
he sees it really impacts and impacts see
so how do I get here a tooth of
shark as they carried the key to
your house
the key to that house they had had
to leave out of fear for fear of
die and that key that they expected a
day not too far back to touch that
door and with that key open and if still
was the house going inside that house
that gaze also absorbed when the
pse
Havana your mobile phone and in that
mobile phone
were all the memories that they
they were showing how they were
where he worked where they lived part of
his family that was not with them anymore
you gave you a little bit of I do not know what
in a box they fit everything that
it’s from the past and they’re still anchored
in the game
Another one of the looks I want to tell you
it’s the look of fear and terror
that fear that affects them having their
home having your friends
there comes a time that there is a war and
they have to leave they have to leave
fleeing and fleeing and that fear is going to
continue will continue with them
that fear that makes a physicist arrive
in one day his house and they tell him to
from that day you have to manufacture
gases for war
he knows his answer his answer is no
but he knows that from that moment
is sentenced to death and has to
run away and run away and as it goes by
borders or as it reaches the sea and
he has to cross that sea they charge him
double and many times triple and
when he tells you once his look of
fear or fear of that mother who
one day arrived in Syria
he grabbed his children under his arm and
he had to flee across those borders and
to get to turkey to go into some
boats that I will tell you now
how did you navigate in those
boats one by one or two by two
How did she do it
so you can get an idea of how
they marked the boats they were
called tings good then in each of
those guix what they did was put the
women and children in the center and they go
surrounding those of men were going up and
the last one that went up had the luck and
they touched him with the magic wand and
they said it was the capital
captain of the boat would have
seen or had never seen the sea
they indicated a direction to follow
they said those lights is your course
many times it was the airport and
mytilineos other times it will be the city or
the lighthouse depending on where from
it left place where you arrive in the
crossing between 7 and 9 kilometers
to all this you have to add this
some vests that they bought very
good price and that price
many times not the vest does not
it served for nothing because even
it floated to look at all these vests every
one is a story to keep in mind or
think what fear that mother is going to have or
any mother of those who are here
to grab one of your children put it
inside a boat that does not know
if you are going to get to port because the
Captain has never seen the sea and
they wear vests that they do not know
if they are going to float or not a fear that when
the boats arrived
to us what they told us the first
day you arrive at the beach to work is
that the first thing you have to do is
no no not drag none of the
boats because you can have
legal problems
the second thing was that when they arrived
let’s remove the contact due to problems
what could they cause but
third and above all they told us that
We will not puncture that boat, not the
we have many times those of the
we had to deflate because if not the
access was not good to the beach but that
pinchas not have because the sound
was going to produce the boat was going to be
that the chaos that is said is the
chaos and people are thrown into the sea by
fear or fear of that fear sound
also the one that had this girl I
I took photos several photos there were times that
even playing cloth because you do not
let them do inside the fields
none was
he did it is a bit hidden and then
I realized this that the girl when she saw me
aa take a picture and I tell you I do not
I noticed the girl looked at me like a
little scared and raised hands
imagine the terror they have even
when they have come to be in a field
of refugees
still all the third look that you
I want and I want to tell you is a look
of hope imagine that these people have
had their houses had their family
I went to parties and went to the theater
conventions like any of us
laughed suddenly singing anything because
have had to flee for fear and still
so everything is that image of that
look of hope look like the one
I had my amet friend here you see
smiling amet carries a bullet this
size housed in the hip
so he took her from Syria from home and
or laziness imagined the terrible
pains that I had the first day that
I entered the refugee camp the wine
towards us
we had the boat there
and the junk to go to the sea and the
came to us and embraced us and in
the beautiful that look of hope and he
He told us between between words do not know
in what language but especially with the
look I was grateful because they
we are helping but above all I had
hope because I saw that there was
people who will not forget that
hope for amet vale
He always laughed and told me that
how good it was before the war
was stronger than me and that when it happens
the war will return to train and it would be
stronger than me
what I did not know is that it was more
strong than me and stronger than many
of which we are there because he was
the one that gave us encouragement and the one that had
hope imagine for a moment
here beige a news of what
it would be a solar storm
this is not that I invented it myself
this company
there is even the government of the states
united because you have a plan for it
and imagine that there is a solar storm and
let’s say you turn off all electric or
electronic
at that time a city like Valencia
would plunge into chaos we would not have
money because there were no computers not
we would have transports the food
would be scarce and much
many of the people who live in the
city of valencia would have to emigrate
they would have to go to other places and
I wonder would we have that hope that
had me because I tell you this I say
because I believe that continuously we
they are bombarding with images of a
little as the child drowned on the beach
people in line waiting for you
feed or these days fields
snowcapped refugees and people with
blankets covered and what do we do
as self-protection
we created a huge wall in front of
us and that wall makes us fell a
wall makes us say that we only see
big headlines Syrian war but
we forget those little ones
stories that little story like the
of the physicist who had to flee out of fear
like the mother who had to
embark your children one by one of two in
two
inside a boat to a course
unknown
or how I loved her, I was the only one
I had hope for that, what I am going to
ask is only one thing
one thing that I think is easy since
difficult time and it is not even that
volunteer or donate money
I do not just ask five minutes for anyone 5
of our time
during those five minutes of your
weather
the next time you go online
that you watch television or that you read a
newspaper and you will tell me in a
image of a refugee you look at that
stare at that look at the root of the
wall and collapsed that wall versace
fell collapsed what you look examined and
reflect and reflect what happens
for that head so that after
have everything had to flee by
fear has had to cross borders has
had to cross dark seas has
come to where he thought the
salvation has gotten into a
refugee camp and still everything
have hope maybe so we do not
return to ours
thank you very much
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