editorial de "La Stampa" of 2 March 2010
Martina did not want to stay Massimo Gramellini
Martina Maturana is twelve years old, lives on the island of Robinson Crusoe Island, off the coast of Chile, and not sleeping .
He just felt shaking the mattress in the back. A vibration did wake up, but not that much. It could just turn away and start to sleep, how they are doing all the other six hundred inhabitants of the island of Juan Fernandez.
Martina gets out of bed instead. He wants to understand.
shakes her policeman father, holed up under the covers. "What happened, Dad?", "What was what? No, go back to bed. " She goes, but can not get to sleep.
Then, on tiptoe, reaching the window, looks down and sees. You see the boats swaying in the bay, the moonlight. And he understands. "Tsunami."
He rushes into the streets to play the gong. Now I'm all awake And run to the top of the rise that dominates the island. Just in time: in just a few minutes a giant wave engulfs the bay, flooding the square, destroys the town hall and the surrounding houses. The girl who did not want to stay saved the lives of all those who did not want to wake up.
remember her, every time we resign ourselves to remove the reality and reassuring explanations for not having to deal with it.
Martina embodies the spirit of every human being, as it was at birth and how it should always be, and instead is almost never: this in itself, capable of wonder.
In a word, alive.
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