-Two extreme towns, two different cities, with too different people-
It happened that the people who lived in the town at the right hand of the mountain, were very emotional, to the point that when they cried, they would laugh afterwards and if they laugh, they would cry afterwards. They would take things to the extremes and when asked the reason, one of them said, ” When I feel what I feel, I laugh and after so much laughing, I feel like crying and after so much crying, I feel like laughing.”
As you can see, this was a very special city. But the funny thing was that near this town, there was another town, but these persons were completely different. Nobody laughs or cries here, no matter, the news, circumstance, situation since the expression is always the same. They are like a picture on the wall.
Can you imagine a world where the child does not laugh, where he cannot cry or not even knows the meaning? It truly was an extreme place. But one day, as the night was falling, the mountain -that in truth was a volcano, went into action and there was a huge earthquake.
The people who lived in both cities, fled and a better town appeared. But something wonderful happened and it was that the ones who laughed, would only laugh, and the ones who cried, would only cry.
And when the elders were asked what had happened. They would say, ” Oh, it is very mysterious! The mountain made us change, the huge earthquake gave us new action. We are now, what we were not before, now we have a superior wisdom.
Many times we think that we are the owners of absolute Truth, nevertheless, we don’t realize that we are not fully living . And at times, the circumstances, force us to change and the persons living in the city, will move to the rural area, and the ones who lived in the rural area, will live in the city.
Those persons on occasions, discriminated because of the color of the skin and because of the culture, but as time passed, it was understood that what happened before, was horrible and as the old man said, “Life is much better now.”
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Author: Oscar Basurto Carbonell
