CHAPTER 64

BERNARDO UP TO THE ROOF of the hotel where he was staying and sat on the edge and watched the city of Barcelona still lit up.

A completely unexpected scene happened.

A young man of approximately thirty years of age climbed on the ledge beside him and was looking desperately at Bernardo, after a few minutes contemplating whatever was down there, he finally noticed his presence.

— If you move, I'm going to throw myself out of here - he shouted.

At first, he was completely speechless, he even thought about pulling him, but he realized the size of the child - a man almost two meters tall, and weighing about one hundred and seventy kilos - and decided to abort the idea and try to solve it in a different way. other way.

— If you want to jump that bad, you'll have to get in line, mate.

As if by magic, the boy awoke from a trance.

— Who are you? – He shouted almost in despair – what are you doing here?

— There are a lot of questions for those who won't do anything with them in hell — Bernardo said sarcastically — the dead don't need to know the names of other dead, after all, we're in the same boat, hermano.

The boy showed despair and hatred in his eyes at the same time, alternating between looking at the almost deserted street and the effigy of Bernardo.

— You don't know anything - continued the young man shouting - nothing...

— Of course, if I knew all the answers in the world, I wouldn't be talking to another madman like me.

— I'm not crazy, I just have an unsolved problem.

— And dying will solve the problem? - How did Einstein not think of this?

— No but...

— Do you want to trade problems with me? - Everyone has problems, man.

— You talk as if your life is wonderful.

— And yes, after all, I'm not hungry, I'm rich, married to an extraordinarily beautiful woman.

— Then why do you want to kill yourself?

— I don't want to kill myself, but I know I will, maybe today, maybe tomorrow... that's the law of nature.

— You're crazy, you don't say anything to anything.

— Only mad people are happy in this world. After I discovered this, I stopped suffering for nothing.

The boy bit his lower lip, fighting with himself, trying to hold back the tears without success.

— Life is too short to want to shorten it even further.

— You would not understand...

— I don't need to understand love to love someone, those who seek to understand everything are disappointed, life is too short to want to philosophize and please every idiot that appears in front of us with the solution to our problems.

The boy sat down on the railing and began to cry again.

— Do you know who I am? – Didn't wait for an answer – Son of one of the richest and most influential men in the world, and even though I can buy everything I want in this life, I'm completely unhappy, my own father cheated on me with my fiancée.

— Sometimes life brings some disappointments, but if we live bowed before it we will never see a horizon.

— I don't know what to do, how am I going to face my father?

— He will always be your father, regardless of any problem, the big question about this is his attitude, it's time to put that negativism aside and go get what really matters, and another, he still has a father he can reconcile with , I didn't even know mine, the only memory of him I have is his funeral.

The boy stood up, looked at that extraordinarily beautiful moon and smiled for the first time in months.

— My name is Pablo Luiz Aguirre, if you ever need something, you can count on me.

— Mine is Bernardo Garcia.

BERNARDO lay down beside Camila and realized how much he was a man blessed by God, he had a wonderful wife, an extraordinary daughter, his dream job.

When least expected he was already dreaming again of his wedding day.