I saw a little boy along the way. I helped him, however, he suddenly left me and stayed away.
Next, at a far distance, I saw him standing, and he picked up stones and threw them at me.
I thought he was innocent, at first, wearing that pure white shirt, but he hurt me in the end.
I tried to move forward in a certain direction.
However, at some point along the road, I met a STRANGE CREATURE with a scary body.
The scary creature has a slimy body, with long black fingernails.
I held his hand but it brought me too much pain.
I was trying hard to hold onto him...
But the more I stayed there holding on, the more I felt like I was dying of too much pain.
It's like poison to me, he was like poisoning my body and it gave me terrible unbearable pain.
I endured it all for too long, never letting go his hand.
I was like ready to die. I was like resigning to fate whatever will happen, so be it.
I felt that it was really difficult for me to breathe at all, and it was like a hopeless situation, however, out of nowhere, I saw a white hand from above, from the heaven.
The hand was dazzling in white, shining above me.
It's like offering his hand to help me, to save me.
I could feel the tension between them, they were not at peace with each other. They are not friends, the white hand from heaven and the other monstrous hand on my side.
Next, I decided to reach out to that dazzling white hand of the heavenly divine being.
It's not easy to do it, I was struggling hard to reach it out due to my unbearable pain. My body was slowly dying. I tried and tried, and eventually, I made it, I held his hand tightly using my weakening remaining force.
Next, I tried to bring the hands of the two hostile creatures, the heavenly and the monstrous one, closer together.
The two creatures were like repelling forces at first, as if they were both disgusted with each other.
However, I persisted too much and tried hard for too long, and eventually, I made it, bringing them closer to each other.
They did it, they shake hands.
They seemed to be in good terms, finally.
Out of nowhere, I was instantly healed, my pain was gone.
I felt more alive than ever.
-A. Patino, Year 2014