@tibianchini
1 year ago
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The forbidden word
(007 of 365)
(distant from an unfinished story)
I asked my parents:
“Can I just eat dessert?”
“Yes,” I was told.
“ And can I play video games later, and skip school tomorrow?", I risked a more challenging test.
“Of course, son! You can turn the video game on TV in the living room, which is bigger“, they answered me, with a smile on their lips.
I knew they couldn't tell me the forbidden word. They'd have to give me the universe, they'd have to agree to everything I said, and they'd have to settle whatever was said. Now I could do anything.
I was intrigued. If it was possible to allow me all this, why would they never let me do these things? If it was now possible to give me only statements, what was the reason for all the negatives that had given me up to that moment?
Without understanding, I finally asked:
“Do you hate me?”
I saw Mom's smile wither. The ‘s’ of yes came to form on her lips - after all, she could only tell me that. Dad got caught and seemed to choke.
Mother's eyes looked at me, pious and seared. She couldn't say ‘No, of course not, we love you!’, because ‘no’ seemed to have disappeared from your mind. She began to cry copiously, hugging Dad, who, with strength, squeezed her eyes between hiccups. No; they were not able to say “yes” to everything, no matter what the mandinga of a God or some Devil.
Mother looked at me in supplication. She didn't have a possible answer - and refused to tell me the only word allowed in that stupid game. I felt how much they loved me and how much it had been sore, for them, all the ‘not’ who had already given me.
“You know what?” I finally said, “Let’s stop this joke? I want you to be able to give me all the answers I deserve and need to hear”.