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Warned by Elves about the existence
of a place of infinite beauty, I left, the path to my work without any sense of
guilt. It gave me a melancholic joy seeing that Bus approaching the Stop. The
same bus that took me to the beach thirty something years ago, that beach, my beach,
the one of eternal summers.
Once in the Bus I was assaulted by
the uncomfortable feeling of being the only passenger on. From the window, I could
see my briefcase and my suit carelessly abandoned at the mercy of the wind.
A long Lonesome road took me by
lagoons and swamps beyond the expected landscape and I felt the uncertainty of
being lost in a mysterious world. I was
convinced that could not return from this journey and that for some unknown
reason my life would not be the same.
Suddenly I find myself in the
middle of the darkness of the night, the screech of brakes and the sound of the
back door opened put me on alert, the driver in a bad mode announced that this
was the last stop of the last bus of the day.
When I left the bus, despite
walking by the most absolute darkness immediately I recognized the place, the
cold sand on my feet, the immense black dunes in front of me and the sound of
the sea were sufficient Guide to tell me the direction to follow.
When I reached the top of the dunes
all became clear, a few white lines were distinguished between the darkness of
the ocean, those waves of course were very familiar, it was my Old Town.
A lonely wooden beach house,
displayed by the only window, colours of different flashing lights. The room
was dark the lights from the window coming from a screen projection
As a
flashlight impulse, I find myself transported inside the house where they were projecting
a movie. Like an improvised amateur Cinema in which had a screen against the
wall and a lot of chairs occupied except for one in the third row. I sit down
and try to concentrate on the film showing Bruce Willis playing a young detective.
Sitting in the front I could
identify Gustav, a great friend lost in time for 20 years, before joy and
greetings others were turned, there were Claudia, Elizabeth, Ale and ‘El Gallo”.
Not being able to contain my joy I start jumping chairs and hug them then I
distinguish some more friends of those unforgettable summers.
Then someone taps my shoulder from
behind and tells me: "man can you sit down, and lets us watch the movie in
peace", that was Daniel was another lifelong friend.
Suddenly, the film
ends and a beard old man announces that a disaster of global magnitude has
occurred and this small sector of the planet is the only non-affected area and because
of the tragic events we were the only survivors
Far from the panic following the horrific news or the overwhelming
feeling of sadness, the tragedy triggered a strange inner energy. In a matter
of seconds we were absorbed by the intensity of the colour lights “disco style”.
Perhaps the consolation of at least all being together as in those golden days, made us react that way and forget the magnitude of the tragedy
JAVIER MIRO
