Joel is a 21st-century child. To pay for the house in which they live, the cars in which they travel and the few days of vacation they take each year. He also says he wouldn’t. He doesn’t mind having a smaller room, a slightly slower car with no leather seat and a more uncertain future, in exchange for spending a little more time with his parents.
But not with your parents now? Tired, stressed, worried and inaccessible?But with their parents before: attentive, consensual, smiling, supportive and consistent. They miss them very much, but he doesn’t know how to tell her. In addition, John noted that adults, not just their parents, also do not express how they feel. He suspects there is a connection between the emotional world and words, but no one has taught him exactly how it works. These are all suspicions that you don’t feel safe.
“Childhood never lasts, but does everyone deserve one?” – Wendy Dale-
Joel is also a kid who doesn’t play, or at least doesn’t play to play, but with another intention far beyond having fun and having a good time. Since his sister’s birth, his parents consider him great and give him responsibilities. , even if it is little judging by the kind of concern it expresses, the only thing this gives it is even more insecure, but it also does not know how to tell it.
In addition, the little protagonist of this article has no free time in the day, the question of what he wants and what he does not want to do is limited to weekends, where, fortunately, the mother works. their grandparents. They intend to regain all the freedom to which their parents restrict them in two days. Although the child has not told them this, they have the wisdom of experience and suspect what he feels; However, these sudden changes also confuse Joo.
The weekdays, mornings and evenings are full of color, in fact, this year, he had to repeat the color for more than one activity, because in his case, there was not a wide enough range of colors to differentiate his entire agenda. School English this year is the same color as the English of your private classes and the same goes for music and the music conservatory, or the school of physical education and football. Even this year, he had to wear yellow, which he likes even less than kicking a ball, for Chinese lessons.
Joo no longer complains about football, at least not directly: because he doesn’t know how to do it when he’s older and doesn’t want to do it as a kid, but mostly because he doesn’t want to disappoint his father. you feel like you’re disappointed when you’re not playing well or the day it’s your turn to sit on the bench, you don’t even want to imagine what you might feel if I one day told you that your dreams are different.
“One of the best things that can happen to you in life is having a happy childhood. -Agatha Christie-
Joao loves to read. He fondly remembers the stories his father read to him when he was little. Some read them, others invented them. He especially liked makeup because his father knew him very well and knew exactly what he would like the intrepid boy who had just escaped out the window to do. In that complicity, now lost, I ended up sleeping with a smile.
Also, the next day, Joo secretly did what we can now reveal: he wrote the stories on paper because he wanted his best friend to enjoy them too, it was his way, among many others, of trying to compensate for the sadness. he saw in his eyes for not having met his own father. He also did it for another reason: one of his neighbors had Alzheimer’s and Joo had witnessed his memory loss.
He did not want to forget some of the stories he was embracing now, when he felt in his words that his childhood was gradually moving away and that, unlike this runaway and adventurous child, he would never return.
Joel knows many more languages than many children his age, is good at the piano, masters the equations while his colleagues still struggle with negative numbers and knows how to do all the minimal care a little sister needs. a sad child and is also aware that he is sad because one day he was happy, he was immensely happy, a happiness that his parents sacrificed for a future that no one knows if he will ever come. ?