The Show Must Go On

These last times have been really tough for most people. The current health-economic-social crisis, in which the world dove in recently, is unprecedented.

With more time at home, the chance to reflect about life and its back and forth really came out as something positive. It’s an opportunity to think about everything is going on around us and even on the planet (why not) and search for future ways of life in many aspects.

In one of those almost spiritual moments, something remarkable came across my mind. I remember when I was just a kid watching TV on a Sunday morning. It was May 1, 1994. The date for itself is already meaningful for many Brazilians. On this date at Imola speedway, Ayrton Senna, one of the most popular heroes in Brazil, died in a brutal F1 crash.

That was shocking. I couldn’t believe he was gone. On the following weeks the sports world, specially the Formula 1 Circle, had to deal with the almost incredible and still fresh scenes saw at Imola and with the huge gap left by Senna’s death. I couldn’t either watch the following races. Actually, I did not watch any Formula 1 race for the rest 1994 season. Many Brazilians did the same.

However, as the time has passed, considering the long time away from the F1 races television transmissions, a raising feeling started to motivate me returning to the regular F1 fan routine. Ten minutes in front of TV watching the 1995's Brazilian Grand Prix were enough to realize that nothing could really stop the sport. New rules, new drivers, new perspectives. The terrible memories of the previous year were still there, but the implicit mindset was clear: the show must go on. And it did so. Today, 26 years later I’m still here curious about who will be the next world champion. Lewis Hamilton, of course. I guess it’s fair enough to conclude that at the current stage. For the 7th time, by the way.

I don’t want here to make comparisons or try to establish similarities between the 1994 tragedy and what is happening in the world. That would be impossible. Actually, everything that I′ve mentioned about F1's 1994 season, was just the trigger to something that I believe all of us must keep in mind: the show must go on. Life will follow its course independent of how difficult has been our lives these last times. Either surviving or not to the current challenges, individually or in group, life will not stop and wait us to get healthy or to recover jobs, money or opportunities.

The good don’t last forever the same way as the evil don’t last forever. Nothing lasts forever. So, if I learned something during these last times was to enjoy more family, friends, pets, home and every single opportunity to produce something useful, that I can use to build up my future life and, if possible, that can be replicated as something positive in the life of those I love.

It′s impossible to predict whether this mindset can lead me to success or it's just over optimism, mainly in such disturbing and uncertain days. But this has been a sweet balance point for me. The simple fact of being writing this article and having you reading it tells a lot about how much both of us is blessed. It’s simply a loud and sound message from the skies for us to take the opportunity we are given every day and do something good with our time here. Thank you for reading.

The show must go on.