If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live
This powerful posthumous column by the Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández, who died on 3 February, reflected on the luck that shaped his life compared to those born in regions of the world ravaged by hunger, poverty and war. “Even in this difficult moment I’m going through, I don’t think I have the right to complain or to moan about my lot. How can I play the victim knowing these historical inequalities and injustices? How can I lament my fate when we see what is happening even now, in Africa, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Yemen, Iran or in Palestine?”
