How can I give advice when I have the age I have and life is just another life?
I don't know the life now.
I have no children.
I don't teach.
We have not been on the same earth.
Time changed so much, you cannot say the same.
You know, like the son of a man I lived with for a few years, when he finished school he decided to go for one year far away traveling.
We were very happy that he does that.
He came back after three months with a terrible, terrible phrase.
He said, I realized that all my friends didn't go, so I would lose one year.
I mean, in my youth, losing one year didn't exist.
You don't lose one year.
Until I was 26, I never wondered what I would do later.
I never thought of my life in terms of losing time.
I was young.
I was not losing time. going all over the world.
How can I give an advice when in my life you could move, travel hitchhiking.
I lived for seven years with no money.
Seven years.
I hitchhiked one year in Mexico.
If you say this to people now one year hitchhiking alone in Mexico, they just think you are looking for problems.
I slept for one year on beaches in train station.
I had no money.
For one year, I never paid a hotel.
Never.
One year.
In my case, advice was to my freedom that my parents gave me by allowing me, even if they were against, to travel for years, not helping me because they were against, but accepting it, protecting me even if they were against.
So the only thing I was to be.
I left my mother when I was 16 15, 16 because my father accepted, and my mother also, to give me the monthly payment he was giving for me.
You know, like parents are divorced.
He was giving a certain amount and my mother accepted that he gives it to me if I could manage to live with this, which I did, so I took an apartment and paid for my food when I was still at school, before baccalaureate, because they accepted, so they gave me that freedom.
It was not an advice, they accepted my freedom.
And after, when I traveled seven years, even though they thought it was a little excessive, my father always thought it was good that I learned how to fight and be in problems and all this.
I was courageous, but now what's happened requires much more courage.
I was courageous because I was protected by parents that I knew would never let me be taken away.
I was protected by the fact society was more human.
I was protected by the fact there was no social how do you call them social?
Media that just destroyed life like that, leaving nothing on the way.
I was courageous because I was never alone, because there were political movements.
We were together, we were fighting together, so it was making a group.
I was a political activist because it was in the air, it was all over.
Anybody a little thinking was active.
Now, you know, it's not the same life.
If I was to be an activist now, I would be really problematic with whom and where and what you know.
For us it was abuse, abortion, you know, the fights where you just had to pick one fight.
Well, it's not that there is no fight anymore to pick, there is a lot.
It was there, you know, abortion was there.
It was your concern and it was there, for example.
It was my last fight, that's why I'm talking about this one.
Now I could not be, I could not be activist in the left, in a movement whatever, any more.
Because because it's well, it's also.
I find it's more complex, also because I finally realized the complexity of it.
And when I was 20, boom, I was going like that.
I didn't see the complexity, which is beautiful about being young, but also it was less complex.
Now I just look at the situation, I'm just like totally disarmed, paralyzed, knocked out.
You know, what's happened now with Trump, you are knocked out.
You just look at it and you say you don't even know what you could do.
It's not like people don't do.
It's that you don't know what to do.
Nobody knows what to do.
It's like you're just like, yeah, knocked out and exhausted. and horrified and what to do.
Sometimes I felt, one day, at one moment, I was envious of my friends some of my friends because they were angry.
And I realized that I had stopped being angry.
Suddenly I was like sad.
I mean, not in my life.
I'm so protected.
I'm so lucky that I cannot even, it's also another aspect why I cannot give advice.
I'm just lucky I was born in a country that was not in war, a family that was clever.
I made studies.
I've never been – I've never fell in love with someone that was beating me or using me.
I was always – I was lucky in terms of companion, friends.
I was – I never felt I was destroyed by someone.
I found what I want to do.
I mean, just I had luck.
