Rodolfo
Rodolfo would turn fifty today.
He was a huge genius who, like all geniuses, left too soon. Nineteen years without his presence in this life.
I have known him since we were five years old, in kindergarten, and we attended school and college together. We became friends very soon and not on my merit, he was like a bright light that attracted people. He had an outgoing personality that made him adorable. Immediately after talking with him for a while, his genius was recognized.
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When he died he was about to take a doctorate at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in Cognitive Sciences. I am sure that his works would have revolutionized the world.
I still think today about how unfair death is. Sometimes I think it is blindfolded, like justice, because it doesn’t realize who it takes and who it leaves. The world would have been much more grateful that Rodolfo remained alive until today, while it has not realized that I am still alive.
Isaac Asimov wrote a wonderful story in which a brilliant scientist was about to make a huge discovery, I think it had to do with nuclear energy, and he was convinced that supramortal beings saw us as a scientist saw a microscope and when they saw that some human being was going to change the destiny of the world breaking with their plan, they annihilated him with a terminal illness, as in a petri dish unwanted life forms are eliminated with penicillin.
That probably happened with Rodolfo, his genius was so great and the change that would take place in the world so deep, that this universal policeman was responsible for stopping him.
Rodolfo was a very important person in my life, a great friend whom I loved very much, with whom I shared an infinite number of experiences and that allowed me to live a part of the world that opened only for people like him, and that I had the opportunity to sneak just for being by his side. Even today, so many years after his death, I miss him a lot.
Happy Birthday dear friend!
