Friday was the anniversary of the death of my father ... attempted to touch the subject ... and honestly it's hard for me .... I just want to share an article I wrote last year and which contains a clearly and precisely what I feel by ... I never tire of saying it was a great man and that his greatest achievement was to transcend the existence of all who knew him ... and really appreciated ... and came to know and appreciate ... that as in all there were people who used ... who betrayed and abused their trust and friendship ... but always with the right spirit ... and the head held high ... asegurandoque quiet in the bed ... is the serenity that only reaches a spirit at peace.
"A nobly EXISTENCE LIVED"
My father Prof. . Rafael Barrera Ortegón in its 6 th. Death anniversary.
When my father died important events in those days went by, the twin towers attack shook the world, but it was the news of his death what really impacted me. Not yet felt the pain go away in time, intact as it was yesterday.
It was 4 months of my return to Campeche, I was 10 years, first to study and then for work. It was his wish to study at the best university, and with sacrifices and great dreams gave me the race, and on hearing of his illness turned to be near him, a wise decision.
was always with me in every moment of my life. I learned that a good parent knows to be a presence in absence. I remember the details of taking to the terminal on Sunday, always bought the ticket number 17, to leave the station to look out the window waiting for me to depart and leave me, almost daily in the evening telephoned me to say hello and share Details of the day. Male
sensitive, fair and sound ideals impossible to break, she practiced master with devotion, and discovered as the elect his true calling: journalism.
In the beginning was a correspondent for the Diario de Yucatan, and then enter as a correspondent, editorial writer and columnist for the newspaper in 1978 Tribune where he worked for over 20 years, continuing as a copyeditor, chief correspondent and editor, Managing Editor and then Director and Deputy evening edition of the morning.
Author Column Policy "File" (1981 to 2000), where he used his gift as a columnist, critic and writer. The Sunday edition was exhausted before the hearty desire of sharing with the teacher that look genuine in our reality, being part of the real water and real journalism in Campeche.
left some letters, which transmits the greatest feelings and desires he had for us, their daughters, and fragment expressed : "Think I only guided by the desire to give sound advice, emanating from a painful experience, that when I am not more than a marble, a name and a date, understanding the great hopes he had locked my heart for life, and understand that you were the only reason that made me fear death, maybe then his face tanned noble fighters, rolling quietly a few tears shed in memory of those who only wish you knew a life nobly lived. "
The greatest wealth that I have is the daughter of a great father, educated by their existence, actions and particular way of coping with life taught me I live and pay homage to daily not only with a few tears but with a life like his "nobly lived." - San Francisco de Campeche.
A kiss to all.
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