Cuentos exagerados para cuidar a los pequeños [ESP-ENG] | 5 minute FreeWrite
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SPANISH VERSION
Mis padres acostumbraban llevarnos a un famoso parque de la zona. Para ese entonces estaba equipado con diferentes juegos mecánicos para la distracción de los niños, como columpios, sube y baja, una rueda y un tipo de bicicleta, la cita era los domingos.
Anhelábamos que llegara pronto ese día, porque ese paseo era lo más emocionante que teníamos para divertirnos como niños. El ambiente era hermoso lleno de árboles, pájaros, un río y su majestuosa corriente interna que se veía sobre la superficie.
Hasta el atardecer todo era juegos, risas, se respiraba lo que representa para un niño, felicidad, con previas pausas para tomar agua y comer algo. Mamá llevaba una pequeña cava que parecía mágica, salía agua, jugos, galletas frutas y panes rellenos para satisfacer semejante batallón. Nunca nos cansamos del parque es un recuerdo gratificante.
En una de esos paseos mi mamá conoció a otra señora que también llevaba a sus hijos y la oí hablar de los peligros del río, contaba que ni el mejor nadador se arriesgaba a nadar en ese sitio por sus fuertes corrientes; contó que un pescador, experimentado nadador, se lanzó al agua y lo arrastró la corriente y lo sumergió a lo profundo, llevándolo directo a un árbol que salía del lecho del río. Decía que en esa mata había una serpiente gigante que habitaba en su base, responsable de las corrientes del río, y que cuando las personas se atrevían a nadar, eran prácticamente succionadas por las corrientes hacia la serpiente que rodeaba su presa, abría su boca y se las tragaba.
Según su relato ese pescador escapo porque se agarró de la cuerda de una lancha que iba pasando y pudo escaparse de la serpiente. Quedaron muchas preguntas en mi mente y se desarrolló cierto temor por el rio. Un día me atreví a comentarlo con mis padres y me respondieron que esa historia era una exageración que la gente inventaba, puros cuentos de pescadores y que ese grado de exageración era también para asustar a los niños, para que no se acercaran a la orilla del rio que no tenía muros de contención en ese momento.
Entonces le pregunte: ¿Por qué ustedes se ponen uno de un lado y el otro del siguiente lado rodeándonos cuando estamos en el parque? Y él me respondió: porque son muchos y hay pequeños curiosos que debemos vigilar porque se pueden perder, hay gente mala y eso no es exageración.
ENGLISH VERSION
My parents used to take us to a famous park in the area. By that time it was equipped with different mechanical games for the children's amusement, such as swings, seesaw, a wheel and a kind of bicycle, the appointment was on Sundays.
We longed for that day to come soon, because that ride was the most exciting thing we had to have fun as children. The environment was beautiful full of trees, birds, a river and its majestic internal current that could be seen over the surface.
Until sunset, everything was games, laughter, and we breathed what it represents for a child, happiness, with previous pauses to drink water and eat something. Mom had a small cellar that seemed magical, water, juices, cookies, fruits and stuffed breads came out to satisfy such a battalion. We never tired of the park and it is a rewarding memory.
On one of those walks my mother met another lady who also had her children and I heard her talk about the dangers of the river, she said that not even the best swimmer would risk swimming in that place because of its strong currents; she said that a fisherman, an experienced swimmer, jumped into the water and was dragged by the current and plunged him into the deep, taking him straight to a tree that came out of the riverbed. He said that in that bush there was a giant snake that lived at its base, responsible for the currents of the river, and that when people dared to swim, they were practically sucked by the currents towards the snake that surrounded its prey, opened its mouth and swallowed them.
According to his story, that fisherman escaped because he grabbed the rope of a passing boat and was able to escape from the snake. Many questions remained in my mind and a certain fear for the river developed. One day I dared to talk about it with my parents and they answered me that this story was an exaggeration that people invented, pure fishermen's stories and that this degree of exaggeration was also to scare the children, so that they would not go near the river bank that had no retaining walls at that time.
So I asked him: Why do you stand one on one side and the other on the other side surrounding us when we are in the park? And he answered me: Because there are many of them and there are curious little ones that we have to watch out for because they can get lost, there are bad people and that is not exaggeration.
Exageración
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