state of love

2/4/2007 1:28:40 AM): there was a girl
(2/4/2007 1:28:58 AM): who liked so much playing
(2/4/2007 1:29:10 AM): that she used to play with any kid
(2/4/2007 1:29:30 AM): no matter the differences between them
(2/4/2007 1:29:37 AM): just for the fun of play
(2/4/2007 1:29:44 AM): and one day
(2/4/2007 1:29:50 AM): while playing
(2/4/2007 1:30:15 AM): some kid she used to play with more than with the others
(2/4/2007 1:30:22 AM): started teasing her
(2/4/2007 1:30:40 AM): and his continued for over a month
(2/4/2007 1:30:48 AM): until
(2/4/2007 1:31:33 AM): in a very sad afternoon, bored by the "same'ol'play", the little boy pushed the lile girl
(2/4/2007 1:31:45 AM): and threw her toys all over the place
(2/4/2007 1:32:04 AM): "i never want to play with you again" said the boy
(2/4/2007 1:32:47 AM): "but why?" replied the little girl, ignoring that she had been pushed to the ground
(2/4/2007 1:33:14 AM): "ours is not to ask why" replied the boy, smiling viciously
(2/4/2007 1:33:21 AM): "but..."
(2/4/2007 1:33:40 AM): "what? what *did* *you* thought?"
(2/4/2007 1:35:02 AM): "but... i thought you liked playing with me. you told me that my toys are the nicest, and now you threw them all over the place. why?"
(2/4/2007 1:35:29 AM): "i will only say this: never shall we play again. and that's it."
(2/4/2007 1:36:33 AM): so, the little girl, with a humble and dazled attitude toward the boy's rude behaviour, began cleaning her clothes and gathering the toys
(2/4/2007 1:37:35 AM): little by little, while gathering the toys, she kept repeating to herself "if he didn't want to play with me then i don't want to play with anyone else"
(2/4/2007 1:38:01 AM): and she kept repeating that to herself
(2/4/2007 1:38:09 AM): until days later
(2/4/2007 1:38:39 AM): she realised that not only was she saying that she didn't need to play with anyone else
(2/4/2007 1:39:09 AM): but she was actually *feeling it* and *doing it*. just like that.
(2/4/2007 1:39:57 AM): little did she know that the boy's reason was that he too had been pushed away some while ago.
(2/4/2007 1:40:16 AM): and little did she knew that by thinking and acting like the boy
(2/4/2007 1:41:26 AM): she just pushed the same behavior (that caused her pain) through the lives of all kids that wanted to play with her
(2/4/2007 1:41:37 AM): days passed
(2/4/2007 1:41:44 AM): weeks passed
(2/4/2007 1:41:59 AM): and the little girl refused to play with anyone
(2/4/2007 1:42:07 AM): and kept on refusing
(2/4/2007 1:42:09 AM): until...
(2/4/2007 1:42:12 AM): one day
(2/4/2007 1:42:26 AM): a small, fragile, weird-looking boy approached her
(2/4/2007 1:42:48 AM): and as she was looking at him
(2/4/2007 1:43:06 AM): preparing to tell him that her toys are not for common play
(2/4/2007 1:43:11 AM): the boy told her
(2/4/2007 1:43:41 AM): "hello. these are my toys. want to play?" and showed her his toys
(2/4/2007 1:43:53 AM): inviting her to play with his toys
(2/4/2007 1:44:24 AM): while looking at the boy
(2/4/2007 1:44:35 AM): the girl remembered that in the past
(2/4/2007 1:45:17 AM): *she* was the one that used to offer the other kids *her* toys to play with
(2/4/2007 1:45:21 AM): and now...
(2/4/2007 1:45:32 AM): strange...
(2/4/2007 1:45:34 AM): why?
(2/4/2007 1:45:37 AM): how come?
(2/4/2007 1:46:15 AM): "someone is asking me to play with his toys and not expecting to play with mine?"
(2/4/2007 1:46:40 AM): used to ask herself while approaching the playground
(2/4/2007 1:47:04 AM): meanwhile the boy was running from toy to toy
(2/4/2007 1:47:18 AM): showing the litle girl each
(2/4/2007 1:47:29 AM): and telling her stories about them
(2/4/2007 1:47:47 AM): "this one i got from my parents, last year"
(2/4/2007 1:48:07 AM): "this one i got my really-old grandparents"
(2/4/2007 1:49:25 AM): "and this one i got from a girl that used to play with me. it's kind of broken and i don't know how to fix it." said the boy as he took in his hand a small toy
(2/4/2007 1:50:02 AM): "so, now that i have shown you my toys, do you want to play?"
(2/4/2007 1:50:23 AM): he asked the little girl
(2/4/2007 1:51:10 AM): "sure, why not?" replied the little girl, thinking that maybe his toys weren't that bad
(2/4/2007 1:51:24 AM): and they started to play
(2/4/2007 1:51:31 AM): a day passed
(2/4/2007 1:51:35 AM): a week passed
(2/4/2007 1:51:45 AM): even a month passed!
(2/4/2007 1:51:53 AM): and they were still playing
(2/4/2007 1:55:22 AM): the little girl had forgotten in time the hard feelings she had when she was pushed, stopped thinking and acting as a child that wouldn't play with other kids, and so, finally, she broke the circle of "i-never-want-to-play-with-you-because-i-got-pushed-too-so-i-am-gonna-push-you".
(2/4/2007 1:55:47 AM): they are still playing in the gardens of our souls, A & M.

TICNIPN,
Misu.