Fiction: How a feeling is born/ De cómo nace un sentimiento (ENG/ ESP)

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How a feeling is born

This story took place long before now. At a time when the sky was not yet made, perhaps that is why the beings that roamed the world almost always looked down and believed that everything that happened was destined to happen and that there was nothing and no one who could change the thread of life.

In this world everything was done. Every object, every structure, every being, had years of existence, so no one knew the beginning of them and no one knew their end. The end came as a normal consequence of time.

The beings did not live grouped together, but isolated, each one in their own bubble created by themselves. In this world lived Yelar, a woman who, like all women in this world, worked, ate, slept, without asking herself why she was in this world and whether she would die one day. It was normal to have this thought focused on the present: any need to know the past or the future was unimportant and unnecessary.

But one day, as Yelar was walking to work, a glass bottle factory, and looking down, as usual, he saw a small bird lying wounded on the ground. The bird was crawling and its twittering was an almost inaudible gurgle. Yelar didn't know what to do with the bird, so he walked past it and continued on his way to work:

"How can an animal that flies be on the ground?" -He must have fallen, Yelar answered himself and went on. But there was something different in Yelar's normal thoughts that day. Several times he found himself thinking about the bird lying on the ground, so much so that he did something unusual up to that moment: he sought out another person and told him his thoughts:

"Today I saw a bird lying on the ground," he said to the fellow next to him, Tom, who was surprised by the unusual behaviour and almost lost the rhythm of what he was doing:

"It will surely die. Birds are from above, not from the earth," he said automatically, and continued to order each bottle that went in and out of the oven, also mechanically.


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Yelar, knowing that he could not change the fate of things, continued to work even though his thoughts returned, again and again, to the bird. "Maybe we are all like these bottles that go in and out of the oven. If one falls, it will break," Yelar thought, making an analogy. When it was time to leave work, something inside Yelar made her walk fast and take the path where she had met the bird. A feeling she had never experienced before flooded Yelar's chest when she saw that the bird was there and its feathered chest was a little box of light resonances.

Yelar took the bird in his hands and brought it to his bubble. He saw that it was wounded and as best he could, he cleaned the wound and waited. The hours passed and although she didn't know what to expect, she stood still beside the bird:

"As Tom says: it will surely die",_ she said to herself. However, she watched the bird all night and just before sunrise, she saw the bird's beak move strangely.

"Maybe it's hungry or thirsty," she thought and fetched some milk from her kitchen. With a cotton swab he poured drops of milk into the bird's beak, which it slowly consumed. Then the bird stuck its head in:

"As Tom says: it will die". -He said to himself, afraid that the bird would hear. It was already dawn, so he had to go to work. As usual, he walked to work. When he got there he saw Tom and told him what had happened:


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"Why did you do that, if the bird is going to die anyway?" -said Tom and looked at Yelar as if she was crazy.

But Yelar didn't defend herself because she couldn't explain what was going on in her chest. In her thoughts, even though she knew the normal course of things, she wished the bird would live:

"I wish it would live",_ he said, "I wish it would live and fly again", Yelar repeated to himself, "I wish it would live and fly as before", he affirmed as if it were a decree.

That idea, that thought, touched Yelar so much that she did her work with care and speed just so that the time would pass quickly and she could return to her bubble. On the way back, Yelar looked for the bird and found it singing finely near the window. The bird could not yet fly, but from its twittering, it was happy, Yelar sensed.

It is alive and will be alive tomorrow, said Yelar happily. And so it was, the bird improved every day until it could fly. It was Yelar herself who took the bird out of the bubble and saw it take flight.

They say that after that, Yelar's chest was the perfect nest for a new feeling, the one that teaches us that it is possible to make what we want come true. They also say that from that moment on, when Yelar had that emotion, as he remembered the bird, he began to look up at the sky.

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De cómo nace un sentimiento
Esta historia ocurrió mucho antes de ahora. En una época, en la que todavía no estaba hecho el cielo, tal vez por eso los seres que vagaban por el mundo miraban casi siempre hacia abajo y creían que cada cosa que ocurría estaba destinada a ocurrir y no había nada ni nadie que pudiera cambiar el hilo de la vida.
En este mundo todo estaba hecho. Cada objeto, cada estructura, cada ser, tenía años de existencia por lo que nadie sabía el comienzo de ellas y tampoco su final. El final llegaba como la normal consecuencia del tiempo.
Los seres no vivían agrupados, sino aislados, cada quien en su propia burbuja creada por ellos mismos. En este mundo vivía Yelar, una mujer que como todas las de ese mundo, trabajaba, comía, dormía, sin preguntarse por qué estaba en ese mundo y si algún día moriría. Era normal tener ese pensamiento centrado en el presente: cualquier necesidad de saber el pasado o el futuro era intrascendente e innecesario.
Pero un día, mientras Yelar caminaba rumbo al trabajo, una fábrica de botellas de vidrio, e iba mirando hacia abajo, como siempre, vio que una pequeña ave estaba herida en la tierra. El pájaro se arrastraba y su trinar era un gorgojeo casi inaudible. No supo qué hacer Yelar con el ave, por lo que caminó por un lado de ella y siguió rumbo a su trabajo:
_¿Cómo un animal que vuela, puede estar en la tierra? –se preguntó Yelar- Debe haberse caído, se respondió Yelar y siguió. Pero hubo algo diferente en los pensamientos normales de Yelar en aquel día. En varias oportunidades se encontró pensando en el ave tirada en el piso, tanto fue así que hizo algo insólito hasta ese momento: buscó a otra persona y le comentó sus pensamientos:
_Hoy he visto un ave tirada en la tierra –expresó al compañero que estaba a su lado, Tom, quien se sorprendió de aquel comportamiento inusual y casi pierde el ritmo de lo que estaba haciendo:
_Seguramente morirá. Las aves son de arriba, no de la tierra –expresó de manera automática y siguió ordenando cada botella que salía y entraba del horno también de manera mecánica.
Yelar, sabiendo que no podía cambiar el destino de las cosas, siguió trabajando aunque su pensamiento volvía, una y otra vez, al ave. “Tal vez todos somos como estas botellas que entran y salen del horno. Si alguna se cae, se romperá”, pensó Yelar haciendo una analogía. Cuando fue hora de salir del trabajo, algo dentro de Yelar la hizo caminar rápido y tomar el camino por donde se había hallado con el ave. Un sentimiento nunca antes vivido inundó el pecho de Yelar cuando vio que el pájaro estaba allí y su pecho lleno de plumas era una cajita de resonancias leves.
Yelar tomó el pájaro entre sus manos y se lo llevó a su burbuja. Vio que estaba herido y como pudo, limpió la herida y esperó. Las horas pasaron y aunque no sabía qué esperar, se quedó quieta al lado del ave:
_Como dice Tom: seguramente morirá –se dijo para ella misma. Sin embargo, observó al ave toda la noche y en un instante antes de salir el sol, vio que el pico de ave se movía de manera extraña.
__Tal vez tenga hambre o sed -pensó y buscó leche de su cocina. Con un algodón echó gotas de leche en el pico, que el pájaro consumió lentamente. Después, el ave metió la cabeza:
Como dice Tom: morirá. –expresó para sus adentros, con temor a que el ave escuchara. Ya estaba amaneciendo por lo que debía ir al trabajo. Como siempre, caminó rumbo al trabajo. Al llegar vio a Tom y le contó lo ocurrido:
_¿Por qué hiciste eso, si de todas formas el ave morirá? –expresó Tom y miró a Yelar como si ésta estuviera loca.
Pero Yelar no se defendió porque no sabía explicar lo que ocurría en su pecho. Dentro de sus pensamientos, aunque sabía cuál era el normal transcurrir de las cosas, deseaba que el ave viviera:
_Ojalá viva –dijo- Ojalá viva y vuelva a volar –repitió Yelar para sus adentros- Vivirá y volará como antes –afirmó como si fuera un decreto.
Aquella idea y aquel pensamiento, emocionó tanto a Yelar que hizo su trabajo con esmero y prontitud solo para que el tiempo pasara rápido y ella pudiera volver a su burbuja. De regreso, Yelar buscó al pájaro y lo encontró que cantaba finamente cerca de la ventana. El pájaro aún no podía volar, pero por su trinar, estaba contento, intuyó Yelar.
_Está vivo y mañana seguirá vivo, dijo Yelar contenta. Y así fue, el ave mejoró cada día hasta que pudo volar. Fue la misma Yelar la que sacó al ave de la burbuja y vio cómo esta alzaba el vuelo.
Dicen que después de eso, el pecho de Yelar fue el nido perfecto para un nuevo sentimiento, ese que nos enseña que existe la posibilidad de hacer realidad lo que deseamos. También dicen que a partir de aquel momento, Yelar, cuando tenía aquella emoción, como se acordaba del pájaro, comenzó a mirar hacia el cielo.































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A beautiful story of discovery of emotions. In that mechanical civilization and outside of all feeling, the impossible happened. Maybe the little bird was the woman herself and when the little feathered one came back to life, something new was born in the woman.

Thanks for sharing your story.
Good day.

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I like that metaphor! I think we are still discovering some feelings on a daily basis. Let's hope they are always positive feelings. Greetings

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A lovely and delicate fiction to imagine the origin of the sensitive spirit, and how things can change with our disposition and action. Thank you. Best regards, @nancybriti1.

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Wow, what an interesting story of illustrating human feelings and passion towards the world and it's creature.

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Thank you for reading and commenting. Regards

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Beautiful story with a tone of legend that makes us see a world we had never considered. It makes us think that Yelar is very special and that he was able to discern a bird on the ground. It was the first time that a bird fell to the ground or it was the first time that someone noticed it. Yelar was sensitive, he had the gift of creation, as the story begins in a time when there was no sky.

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For feelings to be born and grow, there must be people with the need to feel them. So it is with hate, but also with love and hope. Thank you for your support

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Possibilities are built on beliefs. Yelar was gifted to detect the bird's situation.

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