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Friday, March 17, 2006

The Last Day

All children have a favorite toy or something they are attached to and won’t leave home or even sleep without making it a crucial, probably the most essential part of their still too limited vision of this already frightening life they feel are about to lead thus finding in this familiar object a sort of a security blanket they tend to turn to anytime they feel troubled.

A child starts growing up and the picture of his path into this world becomes clearer but greater along the years with more difficulties and now becoming more obvious obstacles he needs to surpass using what he learned all through these years, feeling stronger and more confident all the while never willing to relinquish his affection and love to this companion of many years.

Parents or guardians usually intervene around this stage to help their son forget about his cushion or their daughter put aside her doll but all through a very slow step by step process fearing an abrupt retraction might traumatize their child, damage his sense of security and throw him into some sort of a deep physiological trance that will lead him to become either very apprehensive of or too hostile to his environment.

Unfortunately this is always the case but because the incident occurs at youth this consequent imbalance hopefully tend to disappear with time and age bringing most of the victims back to a more or less stable course of life and have others at least be categorized by society as people undergoing rehabilitation process for whom we should feel remorseful until the time they recover from this frenzy.

But what happens if an adult is facing this same problem, an adult who managed to remain attached to his security blanket all through the years or has recently found one thinking he has now reached utmost confidence and freedom in decision making to keep it but suddenly learns his possession will be snatched from him, his hands tied and there is nothing he can do about it except letting out a torn scream of pain...

“Please don’t take away my doll”

1 Comments:

Blogger GPV said...

That's frightning,the idea of someone snatching your doll or your teddy bear away.
I think it's the best story you wrote yet, it reminds me of this cartoon character "Linus", one of the kids living in Charlie Brown's
story.

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