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In a small world
In a small world
by Lorena Lujan & Gustavo Hernandez
The earth felt fresh, just as any other day. My brothers came out with me to work, so we followed the same route, in which we have been working on for the last fourteen hours. We were strong and nothing ever messed with us. I followed the path that I finished the day before, and I could see through the transparent barrier on my right, the unpredictable on and off of the glaring sun. Sometimes I also saw God. Every couple of days, he showed up, that gigantic and mystical hand from where the food fell off, and we were fed. He was a merciful God. My brothers told me to don’t get near to the hard, green colored structures that rested on the top of our home, because they were not eatable and we did not understand its purpose. The world intrigued me; I had many questions and only got dirt as response. Sometimes it trembled when we did wrong, and God shivered the world with anger, or perhaps just for fun. Only God knows. I don’t know anything. I had hundreds of brothers, and it increasingly felt as if there was less space in the world. Everything felt tighter, but we adapted ourselves, for there was no other world to inhabit. Sometimes I pleaded to God to build us a new world, a wider realm where my brothers and I could stretch and explore because in there we we used to know every inch of space. Every day we followed a routine, every day we did the same, and every other day we saw God's hand while he was dropping the food of the world. We knew nothing, but we already had got used to everything. And the days went by, and nothing seemed to happen until then.
Earthquake. Stirring frenzy. Everything around me was shaking. The world had gotten out of control and suddenly
‑Splash! –
- What happened? I cannot see the sun, there’s dirt without order, my dead brothers. -brothers, wake up! What happened!? Our home is gone; I don’t understand ... what is this I feel? Air? Something is pushing me hard.
My eyes got clear enough to see a bright light lit out of a frame - like the frames of those green structures. What is happening?-
Suddenly I saw God approaching my now shattered world; I managed to see his face. -I saw the face of God! God help me, help me! Look at my world, what happened?-
But he didn’t answer, he never had. I watch a long tube with elongated hairs sweeping away my world, now extinct. I ran to save myself, I was startled, I ran towards the light frame, something was telling me it's was my only way out.
The light blinded me for a moment. Gradually accomplishing to focus my sight, I could finally see something I wasn’t ready for. A new world, reborn.
The land is green and the land beneath it feels smooth, the ceiling is blue and moody, and the sun irradiates the strongest light I had ever seen.
- Are you lost little friend? I haven’t seen you around before -
I leave my amazed state to look at this new creature before me.
-I do not know where I am, what's this? Is it the new world? ... What are you? Why are you so big?
- I am a beetle, Haven’t you seen one before?
- No sir, I do not remember seeing someone like you in my whole life, I didn’t think we had anyone else in this world.
- But there are thousands of different creatures in this world, some are larger than you, some are smaller. You do look kind of lost, well, that you see up there is the sky, not a roof, and that's the sun, and it sets in every evening.
Puzzled by hearing this new creature and all of its new information, I felt the strange force trying to drag me again, taking me with her.
- That you feel is the breeze; do not fight against it, it is part of everything. Every single thing is a part of something bigger, like you and me, we are part of the world.
- A new world, like being born again. After the chaos, came the calm. But…what about my brothers?-
- Death is just another part of chaos; peace will make your world reborn.-
- I understand –
- What do you understand?-
- Death is part of chaos and with serenity everything is reborn, I understand that the world has reborn. But I do not know anything and now almost everything is unknown to me-
-Then feel the land and respect it, feel the sun, the sky and the breeze. Life has welcomed you once more.-
