For Whom is Paradise First?

You rarely find people who acknowledge the talents of others, with gratitude and joy. I am not talking exclusively about those who live within the Church, who are supposed to know that life, without this acknowledgement is a kind of hell, but also about those who approach this life in its diversity, in politics, art, literature and others… Let us look at the struggles in the world of art, for example, in singing, acting, and so on. This is a world that is brimming with pride in oneself only! What is worse than this ignorance is to reinforce it. Notice, for example, talk shows in the media, in which the presenters host male and female singers, actors and actresses. Pushing an artist (male or female) to talk about how good he is at quarrelling, or to gossip about one of his colleagues who is not present in front of him, has become a journalistic scoop. When will we all notice this excruciating agony in Mahmoud Darwish’s question: “who will enter Paradise first? Is it he who died of the bullets of the enemy, or he who died of the bullets of the brother?”?