Normality, naturalness...

The campaign –or perhaps action– by Barça with all that youth (I love, already, using the expression “youth”) with wonderful, punkish and even highly elaborate hairstyles, encouraging, with complete normality and naturalness, the use of Catalan (I also love the expression “to use”) makes me feel, by proxy, the power of the human spring. Bernal, Cubarsí, Kika, Fermín (and his father), Clara, and Marta speak to you about this fact, which we should take for granted, of speaking the language in which they said dirty things to conceive us and, later, give birth to us. To this is added another young woman, Aitana, who explained that at home “they are Spanish speakers” but that “thanks to going to school in Barcelona” she learned "perfectly Catalan". The singer lives in Madrid and it turns out she is a fan of Crims.

I think about the teachers of this international star –I say star even though she sings that she has never felt “part of them”–. They are the most important adult figures we have had, some, on the level of parents and grandparents. How gentle, all these boys and girls, carefree, uninhibited, happy, humble, as only true artists are. And on the road, doing kilometers, coming from afar, other young people, and others not so young, who did it long before, who sing, do theater, cinema, write in Catalan.

I should not be writing such an obvious article. But I write it because with the Catalan language nothing is obvious. You are Catalan and you spend the day acting as an activist and giving thanks. And it seems fine to me, because in these moments of life, when nothing should be taken for granted, I would give thanks for the food received and for the water that comes out of the tap.