Marco Iazzolino

The headlines alternate in saying when the epidemic will end. Experts in television do not spare opinions that describe horizons that are always sensible, but alas, often different. One, two, three weeks, months, or maybe summer or maybe autumn. The question we all ask ourselves is: but when exactly? Usually, when we get to this stage, we start with diagrams, histograms, curves that try to project in time. We risk spending our days looking for an answer that (maybe) is not there, but above all, that hides a big question that can only be asked “by keeping silent”: how do I feel? What to do then? Being in the question without looking for a direct answer helps to welcome uncertainty and turn it into a precious opportunity. We do not chase information, and we welcome the possibility.

Let’s let uncertainty become a friend of our daily life by living today (with all its complexity), rather than waiting for a tomorrow that has no boundaries. Joseph, the protagonist of today’s Gospel, “awakens from sleep,” because he welcomes uncertainty that becomes faith. Francisco Goya, in 1799 represented with an engraving entitled “the sleep of reason generates monsters” that today could be translated into “the lack of awareness of ourselves” generates fear, anxiety, dismay, uncertainty. Courage