Mamen Mendizábal returned last night to El Hormiguero , he sat down again in front of Pablo Motos , but this time he did not do it to talk about current affairs, nor about politics, nor of Governments -which also-, the impenetrable Mamen Mendizábal , as surprising as he can It seems, he sat in El Homirguero to make the viewer remove many things inside, many questions for which we would all want or want an answer, so that we value what "we spend half a life wanting to kill and then we realize what that we have lost . "
It is a question that anyone who is a child has been asked or is going to ask at some point in his life: what would you say to your father or mother if they were alive? A question that for many has no answer, but for those who have the possibility to ask it and ask it is not easy either. I always tell myself one thing, do everything you can in life because when the reaper arrives there will be no more opportunities . And with parents we rarely do it.
Maybe the same thing happens to you, when they are alive you have the perception that they will always be there, you think they will never be missing and although you know that they will not be at any time you are not able to sit in front of them and do them all questions you have always wanted to ask them. Perhaps, we don't give importance to those questions because we think we can always ask them; perhaps, we never made them because we never considered them until they were missing; Perhaps, being a father, children understand it as an obligation, and makes us never stop to think that if we are what we are, it is thanks to them. I have so many questions that I never asked .
And one day they leave, and that day they take away a piece of your soul, and that day you have a huge void, and days later you regret everything you never told them, everything you never asked them, all that They gave you and you were never aware until they were gone. Then, come those questions for which now we would like an answer and can no longer give it to us . And this is what Mamen Mendizábal's new program is about, which will come to television in March, and is called Barro and splinter .
Surprise, right? It is surprising that someone like Mamen Mendizábal , hard as a stone, impenetrable, "without jam" changes to a record that is not the first piece of the puzzle that would fit with it. However, tell me what you presume and I will tell you what you lack. Mamen Mendizábal does not blush to recognize that she is not an easy tear, that she does not fall into sentimentality and that she is very embarrassed to cry. He does not find it difficult to recognize the shield that protects him from the sensory, nor does he have a problem in saying that "it doesn't make much sense to cry publicly . "
Because Mamen Medizábal is not for sensitivities, nor does he want them or look for them, but it turns out that he falls into a program whose objective is to sit relevant characters (Iñaki Gabilondo, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, El Gran Wyoming ...) to ask the question for which we would all want an answer, so that they open up in cana and show "the value of their parents throughout their lives" , so that they remove what many of us cover so as not to feel pain, so that they get excited, so that, if it is necessary, they cry, so that we discover that parents nothing more than there are two, and when they leave they do not return, and they only leave us what we are. Can you leave a major inheritance?
"They told me a phrase to convince me and do the program: what would you say to your mother if she were alive? What would you say to your father? (...) All this removes, but above all it is knowing what you have of they in their hearts, the values that you have left of them. We spend half a life wanting to kill them, especially in adolescence, and then we realize what we have lost . " Amen.
Look at the one that doesn't say it doesn't have jam! Maybe she thinks she doesn't have it, but when Pablo Motos last night rummaged through those memories, in those values, in the deepest, we discover that behind the shell of super strong there is a heart, a perfect heart to make a program with the that it would be easy to fall into setimentality and cursilery , and that you need someone who does not want to cry, but who makes you cry or, at least, get excited.
Last night, he was even about to do it to Pablo Motos when it was the presenter who made the painful, but necessary question. Pablo Motos no longer has any of his parents, his mother, in fact, died recently, and when his father died he lost something, but " when my mother died I didn't want to believe it and I didn't want to keep anything from her . I just I have some things saved and a picture of her when she was pregnant with me, which is the most valuable thing I have in the house. "
If that photo had been given to Pablo Motos when his mother was alive, it would have been one more photo, when they give it to you after she is missing it is the most valuable thing you can have. Because you don't have them anymore, because you'll never have them anymore, because in your conscience you know that there were too many silences that never should have been, because deep down you recognize that you shut up too much and that now there will be no other chance .
Luckily, I have both of my parents alive, and I recognize that I have never asked myself the questions I would like to ask them. Last night, however, after listening to Mamen Mendizábal , after he related how the program was with Iñaki Gabilondo ; how Arantxa Sánchez Vicario contained the tears when speaking of his father, already deceased, of that forgiveness, of those betrayals, of that liberation he needs; or how the Great Wyoming is not as hard as it wants to seem, all those questions came to mind, but more than the questions I came up with everything that I have never thanked. That value of which Mamen Mendizábal spoke of which we suck and for which we are who we are and that most of us have not been able to thank.
"When they proposed this format to me, I told them, you are waiting for something that is jam and I don't have strawberry jam, peach jam, or orange jam . I don't have that. But I took a chance because I thought that if I had to thank my parents would have a lot of travel. It is very nice to see that one is always a child. See that when you talk about your parents you are small again . " I am now becoming small again , recalling everything that I have been so long without giving it the value it deserves . The advice, the education, the efforts, the hugs that were or didn't exist, the looks, the shields, the cliffs, the falls, the hand that lifts you, the push you need ... A son never ceases to be a son , even if we forget it . From time to time they need to be reminded.
I do have an easy tear, I am not ashamed to cry in public, but Mamen Mendizábal has a hard time, it costs a lot because she neither cries, nor is she romantic, nor does she get wet . However, in this program I think we will see a Mand Mendizábal unknown to the viewer. In fact, we already saw a part of that Mamen Mendizábal that occasionally removes the shield. And although Pablo Motos tried by all means to get excited, to take out that jam, Mamen Mendizábal remained firm, although he acknowledged that with Iñaki Gabilando he did miss a tear that, of course, has been cut and will not be seen in Mud and Sliver .
"Iñaki Gabilondo has opened that part of his life to us. He tells us that he has everything from his parents. Gabilondo's father was Gudari and when Franco went to the Basque Country in the summer, they put the Gudaris in prison for a month. And despite that his father taught him not to hate . There is a moment in the program that Gabilondo says "my father told me you never have to hate" (...). With him some tears have escaped me. We were in the middle of a market , next to the carnage that his father ran, and he told me something about his father that made my parents feel . One thing is that I don't have jam and another thing is that it's super tough. " No, we will not see her cry, but we know she cries.
She cries with Memories of Africa , but she doesn't cry with ET - "the first time I saw her I was scared." He also has not seen El Diario de Noa - "I have been told that it is a little bit cool." Nor is it romantic, but let others be. It is mystical, but only in seeking meaning in life, in always asking things, in making a better world through mysticism. And Pablo tried to find his jam there, but not for those. " Everything I do, I do it with my heart . Yes, I was carried away by sentimentality, no, but on TV we are exposed and it doesn't make much sense to cry publicly. I would be ashamed," he acknowledges. He is ashamed, but he doesn't care that others cry.
In fact, in the program with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario , from whom they put a brief clip last night, the former athlete is seen holding back tears, and a Mand Mendizábal, cold, stoic, hard as titanium . "Few people are so relevant and few characters have made such a fuss. She wrote a book in which she said that her parents had stolen her. But there was reconciliation. I think Arantxa is in need of stopping being the bad guy in the movie, she wants to to change the vision . She is a hurt woman, but at the same time without her parents she would not have reached where she arrived. " As Pablo Motos said last night: "a lot of money is cancer, a lot of money is a lot more cancer" . Flo's word, that many should burn themselves on fire.
Because although in life the relationship with your parents has not been as fantastic as you want it to have been, the example of Arantxa Sánchez Vicario is the example of what Mamen Mendizábal said of the son is always a son. You just have to remember it, and Mamen Mendizábal , yes, Mamen Mendizábal's last one made many of us remember it last night. The interview ended and I just wanted to call my parents and say "thank you" .
As thanks for the video with which Pablo Motos also tried to get the jam from Mamen Mendizába l. He got a little insistent. A video, made by Jordi Moltó , in which a patient of Dr. Cavadas , with whom he did the miracle again, writes a letter to simply say "thank you". Because "saving a life is saving the world . " Well, I cried, what milk! Mamen Mendizábal did not blur his sight. Hard, stone, stoic, stubborn?
Because Mamen Mendizábal is true that she moves better today, in pure and hard journalism, like her, in political mentors, in scoop . When he returns to that register, Mamen Mendizábal returns, who has a hard time figuring out a smile. And as Pablo Motos did not get the jam, and as Mamen Mendizábal cost him, he gave a break to return to his land. To speak again of the Coalition Government - "I believe that when you have a project your personal differences have to be left aside", to the Government with the independentists - "I have not found the keys, but I am glad that there is a Government , whatever the sign is-, the negotiating table - "it gives importance as if they were going to change the world" -, the coronavirus - "or I grabbed what the experts say", to the Mandizábal Mamen of give and take.
But, really, I prefer to stay with the Mendizábal Mamen that contains the jam, with the impenetrable Mendizábal Mamen that leaves a loophole for the emotion, with the Mendizábal Mamen that last night removed many things inside me, that last night made me see that it is already time I value what I have never valued as he deserves, that last night he took off the breastplate and undressed to show a Mand Mendizábal who does not cry, but who does feel. We are all the splinters of a stick, that we don't forget, that we don't lose the stick, that we never stop asking what we want to know, that we never forget where we came from and why, and thanks to whom, we are the what are we. May we not forget his legacy, may our parents not forget us .
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