{"id":66603,"date":"2021-11-19T23:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T23:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/?p=66603"},"modified":"2021-11-26T23:57:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T23:57:47","slug":"no-115-back-to-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/short-stories-en\/no-115-back-to-black\/","title":{"rendered":"N\u00ba 115 – Back to Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 20th November 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Scrambling across a pile of waste one man asks another: do you remember the times when we were kids and had nothing to worry about? When we were building sandcastles and the weather was kind to us? Every year we\u2018d take our Mercedes on a driving holiday. Every year we\u2019d sail across to the islands and back to see who was the fastest?<\/em><\/p>\n

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The other guy is crouching below a bonnet, peering into one half of a car and at an engine, on the same pile of junk. Dismantling a carburettor he replies: yes, that was a wonderful time, free from all worries. There was no sword of Damocles hanging above us, and the word Mercedes still meant something. Even Salazar had one, and Janis Joplin sang a song about it.<\/p>\n

On a Sunday, we used to take the car to the beach at Cascais, drink bubbly and eat marisco<\/em>. What a great time we had back in the day. And today? Nothing is like it used to be.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re forgetting the bottlenecks on the way home. But you\u2019re right in a way. Today even the words are cheap. People talk and talk and we no longer have anything of real significance to hold on to. The Mercedes has been relegated to the scrapyard and there is no more fuel available for it. It\u2019s had its day. The carburettor? Relegated to the museum. The exhaust pipe? No longer required. The gearbox? Also useless. At the time we thought all this would be for all eternity. And now?<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s commemorate the World Day of Remembrance for Victims of Road Traffic on 21 November. What idiocy! Dead is dead, memories won\u2019t help. Well, if you could bring the dead back to life then the 21 November might make some sense still. But we\u2019ve not quite got there yet. This is similar to climate change. We talk and talk and talk and then \u2026 the sun shines. We find fault with everything. When it rains it\u2019s no good either.<\/p>\n

Cause you get wet, and sure it can rain, but then we should already start thinking about the buckets we have to set up in granny\u2019s bedroom. And we should remember to take an umbrella.<\/p>\n

Every time I take an umbrella it\u2018s guaranteed not to rain. This is the way it is here. Nomen est omen<\/em>. Better leave the umbrella at home and wait for the surprise.<\/p>\n

Do you really think that one day we can raise the dead?<\/p>\n

Where would be the sense in that?<\/p>\n

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That you can do it, man!<\/em> No longer, that would be enough. Immortality, that would be the greatest hit. Janis Joplin would sing again, and Amy Winehouse too.<\/p>\n

And Salazar? Raise him from the dead? The way some think we can change the weather for the better? We\u2019ll let it rain in Portugal, snow in Russia, and we\u2019ll wish a few more hurricanes on the Yanks?<\/p>\n

Well, if we could change the weather there wouldn\u2018t be any climate change anymore, right? And then things would be as they were before. We wouldn\u2018t have to worry, about a thing\u2026 la la la…<\/p>\n

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Uwe Heitkamp (60)<\/h3>\n\t\t\ttrained TV journalist, book author and hobby botanist, father of two grown-up children, knows Portugal for 30 years, founder of ECO123. Translations : Dina Ad\u00e3o, Jo\u00e3o Medronho, Kathleen Becker
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