1 Oct 2009

THE BOX

THE BOX

Two boys and two girls walk everyday from 18:00 till 19:00 to get home. The path is not beautiful, not quite. The little road is full of noises from the factories nearby, smoke, dirtiness, homeless are everywhere but they are not frightened, they are very much used to this 'landscape' because they are part of it.
The four of them were born on a dark December in 1999. The four of them are cousins and living in a small hut made of branches, metal sheets and little more. The sourroundings are full of small children crying from hunger and adults looking for something to eat.
Two boys and two girls walk everyday from 18:00 to 19:00 to get this place in the middle of nowhere and with nothing to see. But today is different, today a special light is brightening and a soft wind is blowing. They can feel it and they are walking as usual but with a special light in their eyes.
Suddenly, some of them sees it! - Ei, here it is! here it is!- he starts shouting full of joy- I've seen it, it's me, I've seen it the first one!

The four of them start to run towards the huge box standing on the side of the road.


It is a big box, packed and tightened with wide ropes but they start jumping and singing around it. How are they going to take it home? it seems heavy! and they are not strong but quite the contrary, their skinny bodies cannot hide their lack of food.
They start designing a plan. The four of them sit down and start thinking about the best way to take the box home.
One day and another one pass by and no idea comes but they don't desesperate, they are very much use to hard situations, they are sure they will come with a solution and it is going to be soon!
After a week, nothing. The box is still there and they gather together next to it and think once and another time to find out the best way to carry it. But the funny thing is that everyday they move it a little bit, just to be sure that the box is still heavy and full of whatever it is. They move it towards just a step and then, suddenly one day....
The four of them are walking towards the box, they are almost running, they cannot wait, they need to sit down and start thinking about the box and the best way to carry it home. When finally, they arrive to the place they are suprised and amazed, they suddenly realise that the box is already home!

With their little movements, they have been placing the box nearer and nearer to their home and after all days and months, it is already there!
They are happy! they feel overjoyed! they can, at last, open the box!!! their parents, their uncles, everybody is there ready to see the contents of it. But the best thing for them is that without realising it, they have been able to carry the box home, with their little movement, they have done it!!!

At last, their grandfather opens it, he starts to cry full of hapinness. The box is the answer to all their problems, because althougt it is empty, this box has brought the maxim for all of them: 'there is nothing impossible and all problems will find a solution no matter how much time it takes, no matter how slow we do it!'
Now, everyday the four of them come back home signing though the dirty, noisy road.