Archive: April 2012

Handcuffs

An inhabitant of a small town discovered one day that his hands were trapped by a pair of handcuffs. How did being handcuffed is something that is irrelevant now. Perhaps a police officer handcuffed him, perhaps his wife, perhaps it was the custom at that time by social convention, who knows? The important thing is that suddenly realized that he could not freely use his hands, he realized he was a prisoner. For some time struggled with the wives and the string that bound them together trying to free. He tried to draw the hands of the two interlocking metal rings, but all they managed were bruises and wounds. Defeated and desperate took to the streets in search of someone who could free him.

Although most of those who gave advice found and some even tried to free the While most of those who gave advice found and some even tried to free her hands, her efforts only produced greater injury, aggravating their pain, their grief and sorrow . Soon his wrists were so swollen and bloody left to ask for help, but could not endure the constant pain, nor their enslavement. He walked the streets desperate until, passing by a blacksmith's forge, he watched it with a hammer forged a red-hot iron bar. He paused in the doorway watching. Perhaps this man could …

who knows? if not never tried to find out … When the blacksmith finished the job he was doing, looked up and saw their wives said, "Come friend, I can free you." Following his instructions, the unfortunate hands placed on both sides of the anvil, leaving the chain on him. In one fell swoop, the chain was heading. Two Hits and wives fell to the ground. He was free, free to walk down the rainbow, enjoying the sun and sky, free to do all the things I wanted to do and to decide on his fate. It may seem strange, the truth is that our man from then decided to remain in that blacksmithing, along with coal and noise. But that is what he did. He stared at his deliverer, anchored to the village blacksmith. He felt a deep reverence for him, being born inside who captured thanks to the huge desire to serve the man who had freed him so easily. Thought and believed that his mission was to stay there and work. He did, and became a blacksmith's assistant simple the rest of his life. Free one type of chains and handcuffs, took other deeper and more permanent. Put cuffs on his mind having been spared the physical. Interestingly, there had come seeking freedom for two iron rings and found some more …