By Benigno Varillas
Fernando Morán was a man of action; he did not waste a minute in selling his image, which is not a compliment. It was a big mistake, because the greater his deeds were, the greater his person was, and this facet barely transcended.
If he had done so, many of those who did not support him would have done so, discovering that under that overwhelming appearance hid a tender person, willing to help everyone who approached him. Given his little effort in making his personality known, few could imagine that, behind his imposing physical strength, and that immense energy that he unfolded at all hours, hid a sensitive soul, capable of crying at the loss of a friend, or of getting excited at good music, another of his great vocations.
To that sensitivity, which few imagined in him, was joined by another quality, which he detected at first in the Paleolithic Bush gatherers-hunters with whom he went hunting in 2011, in Tanzania, Africa, an experience that changed his way of understanding life: like him, those imposing beings, almost superhuman, were not afraid, of anything or anyone. That virtue, which Fernando also had, allowed him to undertake actions that anyone else would feel incapable of. Not being afraid to face the unknown, to explore new ideas, to see other ways and other approaches to move the world forward was the most valuable contribution of all that made us.
Traducción:
Fernando era un hombre de acción; no perdía un minuto en vender su imagen, lo que no es un halago. Fue un gran error, porque si grandes fueron sus hechos, más grande era su persona, y ésta faceta apenas transcendió.
De hacerlo, muchos de los que no le secundaron lo hubieran hecho, al descubrir que bajo aquella apariencia arrolladora se escondía una persona tierna, dispuesta a ayudar a todo el que se le acercara. Dado su escaso esfuerzo en dar a conocer su personalidad, pocos podían imaginar que, tras su imponente fuerza física, y esa inmensa energía que desplegaba a todas horas, se escondía un alma sensible, capaz de llorar ante la pérdida de un amigo, o de emocionarse ante una buena música, otra de sus grandes vocaciones.
A esa sensibilidad, que pocos imaginaban en él, se unía otra cualidad, que él detectó a la primera en los recolectores–cazadores paleolíticos bosquimanos, con los que salió de caza en 2011 en África, una experiencia que cambió su forma de entender la vida: al igual que él, aquellos imponentes seres, casi sobrehumanos, no tenían miedo a nada ni a nadie. Esa virtud que también tenía Fernando, le permitió acometer acciones a las que cualquier otro se sentiría incapaz: No tener miedo a enfrentarse a lo desconocido, a explorar nuevas ideas, a ver otras formas y otros enfoques para hacer avanzar el mundo.