The lyric of an emblematic song of the popular group Buena Fe summarizes, in many words, the courage, love, patriotism that only the Brave are capable of defending life against a lethal virus that puts even their very existence at risk.
And so, among so many examples, one more from my homeland inspires me, a young man who without hesitation said here I am and left to help in the isolation center set up in the Cañada Honda pioneer camp.
Now from his daily job as an official of the Union of Young Communists, Eliécer Peña Pérez tells me about those days in which he took on more than one task with a single purpose: to restore joy to people suspected of Covid 19.
“It always surprises at the beginning and you get to feel fear, but it is overcome because duty comes first. They were seven days collaborating in the cleaning, the transfer of food and the task that was necessary in the red zone with a team made up of doctors, nurses and support workers, who like me were unfolded to make the best possible days of stay there from the people who were waiting for the PCRs. And he confesses: “Life imposes challenges on you every day and collaborating there was one of those experiences that you never forget and of which you feel proud all your life.
"It is one of those moments that makes you reflect over and over again because a simple carelessness, perhaps a forgetfulness, put the most valuable thing at risk: Life, and then it offers you the way to accompany those who overcome fear and seek to heal", This young man comments with satisfaction, with few words, but with a giant heart that made him put aside his home, his little children, to help unknown people for the sole fact of recovering his health.
Now in his daily bustle, he takes up his efforts: continue his studies in Agronomy, improve himself and achieve greater professional achievements with the modesty and simplicity that distinguish him, the same ones that one day also made him change his daily routine to become a Brave.
