EMBELLISHING AND FINISHING A STORY

It was very early in the morning, before than the usual time for the retired Martin. After a whole life rousing from his sleep at 6 to commute, he had opted for relaxing in bed until the sun had risen and shone. But that day was he overcome with an uncommon and bizarre feeling. After dressing up, he took his book and began to read by the bedroom window. A nightingale was defining its musical words outside, in the beautiful romantic garden, mainly all over the great old sequoia, which Martin´s great grandfather had brought from California and had transplanted in
this ground, according to the family memories. Suddenly, a silence. So deep was the silence that Martin was affected. Standing up, he gazed at the window. Under the tree, as a part of the nature, there was a boy, not older than ten, wearing humble clothes, scanning a book, completely absorbed in his lines. Was the vision so out of the context for Martin that he rubbed his eyes. For a long time, he stared at the boy, voraciously reading his book and deeply engrossed in it, as if that corner of the garden belonged to him. Then Martin crept carefully down the stairs, opened the glass door onto the garden, and again padding softly along the garden, he approached the tree. Coming near the ground, he whispered: It looks as if it is a wonderful book, isn´t it? For the
first time, the boy, raising his head from the pages, shyly and delightfully murmured: ¨It is the book of my life¨.

- ¨The book of your life? How can a young boy have written the book of his life?¨ inquired Martin.
- I have not written it. At least I have not written it yet but I will very soon.

Martin was so intrigued by the boy´s answer and his book that only looking at Martin´s face did the boy realize that he had to give him some explanation. Then the boy began to talk. The book was a family book, a diary that every member of his family generation after generation since his great-great-grandparents had written before dying. Martin was amazed by the boy´s story. Apart from knowing his ancestors, who were they, what happened to them, their behaviors, feelings and fears, he was going to be able to understand better his present and his future. He would do the same for his children and so on till the chain would break if someone dies without descendant or till the end of time…