The early bird God helps

"Al que madruga Dios lo ayuda" FALSE

Willy Stevens, a Belgian ambassador who was in Colombia at the end of the eighties, famous here –but very famous– for having signed peace between his country and the Sovereign State of Boyacá, at war without knowing it for more than a century, in short: Willy Stevens used to be terrified and lamented by one of our most absurd, sacred, stubborn and unproductive institutions: the working breakfast.

Colombia is the early riser country in the world and the least productive and among those ridiculous things of culture: there is the custom of having breakfast and working.

The ambassador could not believe that there was a country where people invited him for two activities that not only have nothing to do with each other but are opposed, enemies, exclusive. Poor Stevens used to say, resigned: "One either has breakfast or works, but never both...". And yet, almost every day, from Monday to Friday, have: at seven in the morning and sometimes even at six I was sitting and bathing at a table ready to have breakfast and work.

But the custom of getting up early, which many believe is a biblical mandate when in reality it is quite the opposite (it is written in the Psalms: “Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse. ..”), seemed to Ambassador Willy Stevens a real obscenity, especially when it is assumed in a festive and proud way, as if it were a great virtue.

Just look at the exemplary case of Colombia, a country that all it does is get up early and God helps it less and less. How can there be peace here, not even total peace, if even World of Statistics, the rigorous Twitter account, broke down that ours is the country in the world where you get up the earliest, to which the Danish ambassador responded, friendly and exhausted, saying that it is true and that never in his working life had he had to wake up earlier.