The former leader of Ciudadanos is experiencing the most difficult days of his life after the sudden death of his father, Agustín. Albert Rivera He was on vacation in London when he received the call from his mother giving him the terrible news and he quickly returned to say goodbye to what has been his great reference. This Tuesday, Malú’s ex said goodbye with an emotional message: “Life is wonderful, you have to enjoy it every minute. That’s what my father believed and he always instilled it in me. But life sometimes hurts, a lot, a lot.. And this Sunday changed me forever when I received that call from my mother that you are never prepared to receive.”
Rivera explains how he felt after receiving the blow: “Rage, disbelief and impotence was the only thing I could feel in those first moments, and the feeling that the life you were talking about was really deeply unfair and cruel. Today, two days then, after saying our physical goodbyes, even collapsing in your coffin before cremating you, with the feeling that part of my heart was being ripped out without anesthesia when you left, I begin to see things in a different way.Your legacy of values begins to make sense , instants and lessons learned from these decades”.
The lawyer recalled what his relationship with his father was like: “I will miss that unconditional way of loving me, with few ‘I love you’ but with that outpouring of love in your actions every day of my life. We knew each other so much, we were so similar in some things, that without speaking for days we were able to communicate, we sensed each other like nobody else. We were a great tandem”. In addition, he has been grateful for all the time he has shared: “I am lucky, because of all your facets of life I have exclusively enjoyed your best version, that of a father. You taught me to grow in freedom and responsibility (which They are two sides of the same coin.) You always tried to get me right, but you also let me be wrong so that I learned to get up.”
Rivera now faces a new life without his father: “You are irreplaceable for me, dad. So I have to take you with me, you will accompany me in my decisions, and you will be present in the values that I instill in my daughters. You have left our side , I miss you, I die of pain thinking about it. But I promise you that from today I will fill that void with your essence and your legacy. And I will take care of mom, your traveling companion for more than fifty years.” And it ends: “We are going to live your death as you asked us: celebrating life. As Gabriel García Márquez said: ‘Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.’ It is true that it is over, but it happened, ‘you happened’. Good trip, dad. I love you.”
