May we embrace one another in a commitment

I, too, wanted to escape from the world. You did not let me do it with your letters, your words in the streets, your helplessness.

So, I propose to you, with the solemnity the words at the end of one´s life have, that we may embrace one another in a commitment: let’s go out to the open spaces, let’s risk to help the other, let’s hope, together with those who open their arms, that a new wave of history will lift us. Perhaps it is already doing it, in a silent and underground manner, like sprouting shoots under the soil in winter.

Ernesto Sábato, Before the end