Reflection on the missionality of science and missed opportunities

In my research experience, I have always entered into a short circuit with a research problem, swollen, happening "here and now", opening wide the doors and windows of my home studio to meet the research adventure...even if it involves risk. I have been doing this for years. I am not a youngster any more, so youthful bravado and sometimes overconfidence is replaced by responsibility and reflectiveness of a task-oriented researcher - the duty of science is to anticipate, follow, accompany... discover, create, explain. Perhaps it is an over-enthusiastic opinion about the MISSION of science - all sciences, in our field of humanities, especially social sciences, embedded in the sense of responsibility for a reliable description - diagnosis - interpretation of everything that happens to a human being, both in an individual perspective and as a social being. The fact that time is uncertain, that the risk of contagion is democratic and equally felt, should not demobilise researchers - just look at other professional and social groups: "they don't crack" they work, they persist in their positions, they are present...Therefore, in the line of many other colleagues, this time has mobilised me rather than made me lazy, it has set a high threshold of attentiveness to myself, to others, to the research process, to the researched, to the researchers, to the phases of the pandemic - to put it in somewhat high terms - it has been a beautiful time of condensation of research experiences and research challenges.