Out of the Silence: After the Crash

by Eduardo Strauch Urioste

I was no longer the same person who had boarded the plane to travel to Chile. I wasn’t yet fully conscious of the depth of that change, nor of the importance of my tutelage on the mountain, but I did feel that I was being violently separated from something that was, in some way, very hard for me to leave.

The mind, educated in logic, searches for answers even to questions that might not have any answers and discovers connections between things that in principle do not have a reason to be linked and that appear to us as pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that will always be incomplete.

Many people may think that his feelings had little basis in reality, but the recognition of a sign is something very personal and almost impossible to share, because it transcends the specific element that produces it and is fulfilled in the heart of each individual.