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incredible. We thought it only a matter of time before things like our
colonization of Mars or the establishment of a base on the moon started
happening. For us now, anything a human being is capable of imagining he
or she can do. We no longer ask: would science one day be able to…? Yes
it can! A cork has been removed form our brains; the cork of a cosmic
bottle of wine where anything is possible. We were no longer the same
people. We had been born again.
Though we didn’t know if we had been chosen; we did know the alleged
purpose. We each had a task, a job. But, what if we refused to carry that job
out? They weren’t negatives assignments. Helping our planet is never
negative. But there have been many times when I have wanted to give up
all this. At times I’ve wanted my past ignorance back. In that moment I
yearned for the days in which I lived in my own locked up world with the
comfortable reality I had become used to. But it was too late for that now.
It’s not easy and I can’t just close my eyes. If I knew that a house was
going to burn to the ground, because of the way I am, I’d still go in and try
to get everyone out and then would help them rebuild it. The ideal thing,
however, would be to avoid the fire but the owners wouldn’t listen. It’s not
in my hands.
Mr. Toño didn’t arrive that night as we had thought. It got late so we
decided to meet again on the date that I originally had picked. We said our
goodbyes with a heavy heart. Helena went to get her bicycle which she had
left in the adjacent estate. I don’t remember well but one of the group took
her and her bicycle home. When everyone left I felt sad and alone. I sat on
the hammock for a while to think. When I started falling asleep I got up to
go bed and looked at the chairs in my garage. Not counting the hammock
there were eight chairs. Who was chair number eight for?
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