Infidelity

A couple of nights ago, a brand new programme premièred in Spanish TV, with an interesting Title 'Infidels' (Infidelity or the unfaithful), a dramatic series in 12 episodes. The word is usually applied to both sexes, but the protagonists in this fiction series are about 5 women. Guess It's infidelity from women's point of view. For weeks there had been all sorts of publicity about this programme with each actress, or all of them, appearing in interviews, or advertisement, news flashes and magazine reports, revealing no story at all just a lot of short suggestive phrases and mysterious looks, leading you to come to the conclusion that there's nothing more to discover now. Doesn't 'infidelity' says it all already?

Ah, but no. They came up with a new and tantalizing definition, which is written in huge capital letters in every publicity article or picture: 'To be faithful to yourself, sometimes you have to be unfaithful'. It stops at the word 'unfaithful', I presume it means 'to another' as indicated or understood. It's a curious idea. If faithful or unfaithful is used in the concept of a sentimental relationship, lovers, marriages, I feel that it's strange to say one 'have to be' unfaithful; same as there's no such thing as one 'have to say Yes' to a marriage, or 'have to' love someone.

As to being faithful to oneself, all one needs to do is just that, BE. Taking into consideration all the personal and social complexity, and the multitude of it's derivations, one's own desires, aspirations and goals in life, weigh it all up, and just be faithful to yourself. Your reasoning and conscience would not allow you to satisfy yourself at the cost of others because, if you do, you are first of all being unfaithful to yourself.

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