The Invisible Chains' Revelation

Freddy is working on his assignment: For his Spanish course he needs to write an essay about his childhood. He shared a bit of his and I also thought of mine. A different world came to mind, a world where people used to tell you that you have potential and then the moment to develop that potential and reap the fruits comes and you don’t realize when it came and how slowly it is going away. You don’t realize when that stuff that you were told by those people who seemed old at the time but not anymore, came true. And one day you wake up and see it there, just like that, like some sort of revelation, that you are living that moment, or you already lived it and you left it a second behind you, and you ask yourself where all that talk of potential went, and you see what you are doing, and you realize that you are not saving the world as you thought that you would, and you see yourself with chains that lead to a bank or your womb and you say: “Hell, I am in chains”. And then you think to yourself what’s left. And you breathe, and you sigh and you think how extraordinary the world outside is and that this is your moment, just the way it is, filling your lungs with an overdose of reality. And you just feel like you are one step away from your personal nirvana, just to wake up again with a phone ringing. And you say, it was just one step away.