Gentlemen, I have bad news for you: parents die“So Jorge Lanata began his editorial this Sunday on Journalism for all: with a harsh message, faithful to style and different to those that are generally replicated on television for Father’s Day.
In parentheses his journalistic inquiries and the revelations of the political environment that he usually shares in his program from start to finish, the presenter took advantage of the special date and dedicated the first few minutes to remember his father who died 30 years ago and with whom he had small link.
He did this by opening up a personal side in which he dared to tell, with some details, how was the relationship he had with him until his death. but also with a reflection on death.
“Many will be able to celebrate their day with them today, many will be able – if time has passed – reconcile with sadness and remember them with a smile. Parents die. You already know that Shakespeare lives in every family: nowhere is there so much love and so much hate, so much frustration and so much affection “, paraphrased the writer.
And he added: “My grandmother, Doña Carmen was illiterate but had learned a lot about life. When I exceeded a limit I said: leave him, he is small, when he grows up he will understand. When we are grown up, we understand, “assures those who admit to thinking about their father every day three decades ago.
Then, Lanata recalled what musician Vinicius de Moraes once said about his father, who said they had little conversation and that when he died he thought of “all that could have been and was not”.
With that reference, he introduced the times when Jorge Lanata’s father was still alive. A time that the journalist defined as “the one in which no one spoke to the parents“.
“My mother was sick, she couldn’t speak, but I only went out to eat once with my old man. We ate in a pizzeria under the Sarandi viaduct. At that time only boyfriends said “I love you”. And nobody talked to the parents, “she shared the only dinner she still has in mind.
Jorge Lanata on his father, who died 30 years ago: “I stopped arguing with him”
Jorge Lanata, with a moving start in the PPT.
He continued: “I had a lot of arguments with my old man, and once we were about to come to blows. Later I realized it, more and more, until time ran out for him, one afternoon, in a hospital in the Parque Centenario. My old man did what he could. I know that the answer is mediocrebut perhaps in life everyone does what they can, and only some exceed their limits “, he reflected.
Finally, he talked about how time helps transform bad memories in melancholy.
“When overcoming the anger and sadness of death, you reach a valley where memories turn into melancholy. Thirty years later, I remember my old man almost every day. I learned, in memory, to love him and I stopped arguing with him. I wanted to tell you today that, as incredible as it may seem, parents die, “she observed, in what seemed like a message to her posterity as well.
Lanata’s reflection had a total different from his usual monologue It started after a sweep.
To relax, he started with a joke about inclusive language whose ban in schools in the city of Buenos Aires sparked controversy last week: “Happy Father’s Day. Now with the whole theme of ‘their’ fathers, ‘their’ mothers, ‘les’ hijes; you don’t know who to ‘damn’ to greet “, he joked, already in his most usual sarcastic register.
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Source: Clarin
