The Children Were At Home Alone

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

This story is for those who, listening to the opinions of others, decide not to do something. For those who do not dare to take a step, do not try, just because others did not succeed. And also for those to whom others say such phrases as "be careful, this is not an easy path", "have you thought it over well?"

Of course, all these people, caring about you and passionately loving you, talk about their fears and clearly demonstrate that they certainly would not bring their ideas to life, would not change jobs or place of residence, and would not do anything at all, which leads to temporary instability.

I believe that this story will inspire those who have doubts about what they want to implement, and given the above, do not dare. Read and go for it!

The children were alone

The mother left early in the morning and left the children in the care of a girl of eighteen, whom she sometimes invited for several hours for a small fee.

Times have been tough since their father died. You could lose your job if you stay at home every time your grandmother can't sit with the kids, get sick, or leave town.

Marina put the children to bed after dinner. And then her boyfriend called her and invited her for a walk in his new car. The girl did not really think about it. After all, babies usually don't wake up until five o'clock.

Hearing the beep of the car, she grabbed her purse and turned off the phone. She prudently locked the door to the room and put it in her purse. She did not want Pancho to wake up and follow her down the stairs. He was only six years old, he could gape, stumble and hurt himself. Besides, she wondered how to explain to the mother that the child had not found her?

What was it? A short circuit in a working TV or on lamps in the hall … a spark flying out of the fireplace? But it so happened that the curtains lit up and the fire quickly reached the wooden stairs leading to the bedroom.

From the smoke seeping through the door, the baby coughed and woke up. Without hesitation, Pancho jumped out of bed and tried to open the door. I pressed the bolt, but could not.

If he succeeded, then both he and his baby brother would die in a raging flame in a few minutes.

Pancho shouted, called his nanny, but no one answered his cries for help. Then he ran to the phone to dial his mother's number, but he was disconnected.

Pancho realized that now only he himself must find a way out and save himself and his brother. He tried to open the window, behind which was the cornice, but his little hands were unable to open the latch. But even if he succeeded, he would also have to overcome the wire protective grill that his parents installed.

When the firefighters put out the fire, everyone was talking about ONE only:

- How could such a small child break a window and break the bars with a hanger?

- How did he manage to stuff the baby into the backpack?

- How did he manage to walk along the cornice with such a load and go down the tree?

- How did they manage to escape?

The old fire chief, a wise and respected man, answered them:

“Panchito was alone… there was no one to tell him that he could not.

From the book STORIES for Reflection. A way to understand yourself and others”, Jorge BUCHAI (Argentine psychologist)