Wake up…
I wake up
with the sound of a strange voice in my ear, but I notice very quickly I am
still alone.
Can you
guess where? Typical me – the bottom of a well! In my defense, it was a very
well hidden well…
We are –
family and me – at a friend’s farm, a beautiful place quite far from the
horrors of a city clogged during a time that should be for celebrations,
Christmas… Did I tell you today is Christmas day?
At least, I
think so… You know, yesterday I was running around after a, well, a little
fight with my cousin, Michael, who thinks of himself as the next
multimillionaire. His wife thinks of herself as the next celebrity… Yeah, not
that easy to talk with them and he started with the old you are a failure. He is that blunt! After much yelling and
moderation from dad and mum, I decided to just leave the place.
I have been
to this place before, we all have been but little Cassidy, so it was with
pleasure I realized there was a full area of land to explore – and I did that
exactly. Brilliant idea, right?
Wake up…
Hey, I am
awakened! Who is there by the way?
It was the 24th
morning and as I started to feel hungry and decided to go back to the farm for
lunch and maybe another fight…
Wake up…
I AM
AWAKENED!
Short story:
I feel into this well. This has been by far my worse Christmas Eve, passing
down here. Something is broken and I can’t stand, I don’t see how to climb it and
I am sick of shouting and yelling, I even called for my cousin to help me…
Wake up…
Another day
passed by, it should 26th today, or maybe I’ve missed one day, not
sure. Someone has to find me, right? I mean, dad, mum…
Wake up…
Hey, what
is it that you want? I am here, alone and the only thing you say is wake up?
Why don’t you wake up?
Ooops, it
responded to me!! Hallucinations… well, at least I have someone with whom to
talk.
‘Why do you
say I am not awakened, Mr… Voice?’
You are living in the darkness of your own
life. You are not valuing what you have got…
‘I am
perfectly happy with whom I am, thank you very much! Has Michael put you to
this?’
If you are that happy, why is there the sadness
in your heart, masqueraded by the feeling of being insulted? And that was there
much before your cousin started to poke you.
In fact, deep down, I can see you agree with
your cousin, after all you expected to be a space engineer by this time, have a
wonderful family and a beautiful house… A house on the beach, from where you
could see the waves breaking on the shore…
I can’t speak…
For some reason, I don’t have a witty response.
But think about how much you have conquered!
Look at your health, the way you work, the friends you have got. Why do you
prefer ignoring the good things and focus on those bad things? It is time you
wake up…
My vision is
blurred, if it is because of being two days with no water or food – I don’t
count gums as food – or just because… just because…
Yes, I have
been always in the wrong side of the road. Everything I have got in life was
not even enough, it was not right. It is not right. I think I’ve missed the
chance with studying, with people, with myself.
‘How… how
do I wake up then?’
Silence on
the other side, my hallucination is probably thinking.
‘I cannot
set any record straight, but I can value more the job, the place I am living,
the people around me and every single thing that is present. Would be that…
adequate?’
It will be a first step. First, appreciate your
own success and as soon as you leave from here, just make peace with your
cousin and appreciate his success too.
First, let
me appreciate my own success: I value my life story, the incredible path that has
taken me to this point in life and I kind of hug myself, in tears…
I am about
to tell to my hallucination that he has been badly informed, as Michael left by
lunch time the day before, when I hear his booming voice… It is like music for
me, I never cried so much! I start to shout and soon the guys are all there. A
team of paramedics (I think) helps me coming out of the well, and we just embrace
as if it would last forever!
But I don’t
move. I come close to the well and I feel others behind me, waiting. I feel
respect from their side. I close my eyes and silently speak to that mysterious voice.
Thank you…
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