Solution, by Juan José Millás

Everyone who is born dies, but not everyone is born. There are incredible numbers of unborn people. If all the unborn were born suddenly, The maternity wards would not cope, nor would we fit in this narrow world. It is convenient to wait for some to die before the others are born. Now, of the people who have not been born, the majority will never be born. There it is a mystery, that of people who are not born, that of the sperm that lost the egg, such as the one that misses the train or that of that egg that bent down to pick something up and passed the sperm over it. There are more chances of not being born than of being born. In fact, the normal thing is not to be born. You and I are the exception that confirms the rule, which does not stop causing me a certain horror: knowing that I was born when birth is the most probable cause of death. How is it that one thing provokes its opposite? Here is a mystery. In order not to die, in short, there is no other solution than not to be born. Those who are not born enjoy a rare eternity: that of things that are not. Why are there things that are and things that are not?

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