Learning about life...

Sometimes things happen that make you see everything in a different way... the myth says that Newton saw the apple falling down and then he started thinking of that, until he understood why that happened, and he saw it was worth trying to develop this new way to see the world he had learned about. If he had not seen that apple falling down nobody would know about him in our days, but that little fact changed his way to see the world and his discoveries will stay alive forever.

Lito doesn't know anything about Newton, he just lives in a small town and lives a life like everyone does: he just works everyday to support himself and doesn't have much of anything. But one thing makes him different from the rest of the people: he has a dream...he dreams of being really happy someday and enjoy himself in a way he hasn't done until now.

One day Lito wakes up and decides he wants to go to the park, 'cause he likes going there every week and enjoys watching everything around there. He likes seeing the birds and the trees... he also likes seeing children playing and from time to time he himself spends some time playing foot-ball with them. He loves that feeling of peace he gets in that park and he doesn't know why, but he feels like it would be perfect for him to live in a place like that...

When asked about the things he wouldn't be able to live with, he would say his piano, his books and that piece of stone he got from Jerusalem... after that would come his weekly visits to the park, 'cause that's one of the things he enjoys the most and make him feel good...

One Sunday Lito wants to go to the park, 'cause it's been a while since he went there... he has had a lot of work to do and it's been impossible to do it before... but when he gets there he finds nothing.

He can't understand, he looks everywhere and wonders if it's just a nightmare... the park SHOULD be there but it's not... and then Lito starts thinking. He thinks about all the good times he spent in the park, and all the good times he could have had if the park was still there... he thinks about all the things he enjoyed there and why he likes that particular park so much... and he realizes the park is more important for him than he thought... and now he would give everything just for being able to be there again... unfortunately, there's nothing he can do now. If the park was there now he would work in order to make it better... he swears to himself that if he ever finds a place like that, he will do everything for it. He realizes he cannot live without seeing that park anymore... and he doesn't understand why he did not know before that it was such a fundamental part of his life... and now he goes there everyday to see if things are bck the way they were before... but they are not.

When Lito wakes up, he goes to the park... and brings a shovel to start working to make it better. Lito is not Newton, but one single dream changed his life...