Put yourself in the situation. You are traveling on an Aucorsa bus through Córdoba (or any city) and you half-absently observe this silence that sometimes mortifies your insides – because everyone is looking at their cell phones. He foresees a stop. The driver brakes and the routine swaps up and down. Close the doors again and walk a few meters towards a traffic light which is about to turn red. At that moment when the wheels stop, a young man arrives in haste, his hand raised. Without stridency in his clothes, he was somewhat agitated, and he asked the driver outside to open the door so as not to lose him. He hits the window insistently. It’s a simple and common dilemma, one that sparks internal bidding: will she leave him or not? The entire passage follows his. The man at the wheel has two options: respect the rules and not let him climb or, on the contrary, contravene the directives and allow him to climb “at the last minute”. What we don’t all know about the scene is the motivation that encourages the rush of the one who wants to climb. If the car opens and the wish is granted, the driver will have essentially done it wrong; but its intention and the final effect will have brought a small good whose benefits can be multiplied depending on the real intra-story which was rushing uncontrollably towards the bus. Quite the opposite of having been strict and having removed the complication under the rigor of the norm. We will not know if this small gesture will have serious consequences. Or vice versa, perhaps the cold refusal ended up scaring off an unforeseen risk. The butterfly effect floated this morning of October 12, 2023 in the imposing hall of the Santa Justa station when Álvaro Prieto missed his return train and urgently needed a return route. . A small gesture outside of protocols and rules in a place where thousands of concerns pass through daily could have had other consequences. Which in no way justifies the tragic end of this story which continues with unanswered questions, which broke up a family, instantly shocked an entire country this weekend and showed the ADIF with fewer details. Especially since a year after the event, anyone could return to where Álvaro had gone and with any motivation, as this newspaper revealed. It therefore does not seem that what happened was of sufficient importance for this exchange of going up and down, of entering or leaving, to remain anchored in indifference, in the rigor of the norm, in comfort. of forgetfulness or lack. of willingness to devote more of the human condition to simple daily tasks. The story of Álvaro Prieto is the story of a multi-visceral failure of the human condition in which each small part made an ultimately irreversible and painful mistake. From the secrecy of the emergency to the automated disregard as a response to bizarre repairs and on an inch of ground.
Álvaro Prieto and the butterfly effect
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