I can not always grasp the hidden wealth of poetry Christian Bobin . But I was struck by certain parallels. For example, when we shall have two faces: that of the newborn, "not yet quite in the world," and that of an old woman, "which is no longer completely " . One begins, ignoring of what awaits. While the old woman, her face weathered by life, knows the little things that do not know. However, it is also an ignorance of the reality that awaits him very mysterious. But she believes, and expects strong.
Then the author comments: "Before the perfection of these two presences, I could not understand why this company is desperate to keep us forever young, distant lights of both the birth and old age, nailed to environment.
We may well ask, so do we, why persist in wanting to stay young forever? The answer is easy enough: we are made for eternal youth. Nothing less! It is inscribed in our nature. But in fact this is not what our nature gives us in this life that, over the years, leads us inexorably toward aging.
The question is deeper than it looks. Why hounding us to want to stay young, "nailed the middle" between childhood and old age? Why, once at the pinnacle of life, try to resist the current of the river that draws us quietly and calmly to the end? Of course, our strengths are not very effective for the brake. It is society, it seems , who wants us to stay forever young. But the company is me and others.
noted an interesting reflection of the author when he says: "these two distant lights of the birth and old age." Everyone recognizes and admires the light of the new born, his innocence, his gaze that can not lie. Light that is already a reflection of the final light to which the child is called. He sucks now, unconsciously, before meet at the end of his journey through time. In twenty, fifty, a hundred years ... Who knows?
Old age also has its light. The old accepted and seen as an expectation of life that never goes out. Also experienced as a thanksgiving for the years spent in a mixture of pain and happiness.
Finally, it is between two in which "society is desperate to keep us, away from these two lights, nailed in the middle, which is wrong. Why bother at all costs to settle there, and stay forever young? This is not what life gives us, since, willingly or unwillingly, we have to follow the course of time, without brake application, to finally take the only door that frees us: physical death. That is the remedy. The adjective "Physical" is not too much. Because it is physically, biologically , that one dies. Funny cure! Because all other remedies we offer medicine, quite the opposite aim: to live the longest and best. And who refuses?
So why want to stay indefinitely between the two lights? In a youth that is not true? The real does not pass, it is the eternal youth for which we are created. Faith, I believe he is the spiritual way that helps us overcome the darkness between the two.
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