- We should admit it: We failed.
- What are you talking about? We didn't fail, we just... we just...
- We failed man. Don't try to make excuses.
- Uhm.
- So, what should we do now?
- We must keep trying. We have to wake up every fucking day and keep trying until we archive the change.
- For what?
- Well, we had an objetive, we have to fight for it, don't we?
- Uhm. I don't know anymore. I mean, we could keep trying, but some things never change.
- So? You wanna leave?
- I don't know. I don't fucking know. I'm..I'm just so tired, you know? I'm so tired of this bullshit.
- ...I understand.
- Give me some time to think about it. I'll call you next week, ok?
- Sure. I'll be waiting your call.
It was Friday morning and they were talking about their fifth attempt to win the elections. They founded a political party so many years ago with the aspiration to change their country, their world, for the better, but they never had the opportunity to govern. They never had more than a 6% of the votes, doomed to not being listened.
The next Thursday a meeting happened:
- I'm in.
- Yay!
- I'm sorry for loosing faith.
- No problem man. Your meltdown was more than justified, it's been so many years of work for nothing. No one listens to us.
- Yeah. That's it. I've been thinking about what went wrong all this years, about what should we do better to reach to the people and...
-...and...?
- ... and I think I've got it. We only have to change one thing if we want to win the next elections, if we want to reach people.
- And that's...?
- We have to change the world.
+ ???!!
- Don't look at me like that, I'm not crazy. It's just the way it works.
- But... doesn't it work the other way? We aspire to reach power to change the world. Not the other way.
- And that's why we have failed every single time. The reality is that society, people, the world, changes before the people they choose to govern. People votes in consequence of what society already is in that moment, not in consequence of what would it be.
- So... what's the plan?
- We just have to forget about the elections, politics and all those things. We just have to start changing things by changing them and not by aspiring to get the power to change them.
- Are you sure you are ok? Did you get some drugs didn't you?
- I'm talking more serious than ever my friend. Give me your hand. - He took his friend's hand and put it on his chest, right on his heart. - Do you feel it? Do you feel every heartbeat?
- Yeah I... I feel them.
- I'm talking from my heart. Do you remember when we started with all of this?
- Of course I do, we were so young and we had our heads full of dreams and fantasies and...
- ... and our hearts throbbed like this.
- ...
- Are we in this together? Let's start over again. Please, tell me you that you are in.-And he put his hand on his friend's chest.
- ...
- Thank God. -They hugged- Let's show them quien manda.