The saleswoman told me that there were other better ones, that this one was out of season, that she was no longer wearing that color and I do not know how many other things. Of course it showed very well that she did not want to sell it to me, but I was determined, and I finally got it, and also with a discount that I did not expect. So it was from another season and I do not know what this will have to do with fashion, if it is not an object to use and throw away, it lasts what it has to. And if you take good care of it as I have done, the truth is that I dont even remember the trips we have done together.
My beloved backpack, the one with hours of pillow that it has made for me, when I was tired and I could no longer go on, the backpack and I have put ourselves on the floor, and there we were calm. I used the backpack as a pillow in which I put my head and I have slept wonderfully.
It had everything, well it was to be expected, because I put it in last night, thing by thing, looking at it in the list that I always keep, so as I go in I dont forget anything, which I may need later.
But without knowing why, I went to the drawer of the table and took out a small magnifying glass, and I thought Im going to take it with me, maybe it will help me for something and opening one of the side pockets I put it in there where I had those two pens, the sharpener and two erasers.
Suddenly I realized that something very important had been overlooked and I ran to the kitchen. The matches, how could I have forgotten them? I had them on the table last night. Luckily, when introducing the magnifying glass in that pocket, I had missed that, since I always carried them there and with how useful they are, they have taken me out of compromised situations several times.
Because where or how you are going to start a fire, when you have been away from any civilized place for several days, of course, with tinder and rubbing the stick, but come on, if you have matches, it is much better, more effective and faster.
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Where can you start? I remember that when I looked up I was a bit astonished, but not much to be honest. The sky had suddenly covered itself with a mist, and I thought This is something strange but Ill keep walking. It had not been long. When a cloud was approaching, that was the blackest thing I have ever seen, and it also seemed to me in a moment, that came out like little rays. It couldnt be possible. I must have been dreaming, but I was wide awake and I was also standing, walking through that lonely place. If I had been lying down I could still think that tiredness had overcome me and that would be a dream, but no, I was pretty sure I was awake and wide awake.
And what did you see? I asked him, it had already intrigued me.
You see, it was one second, because time has not passed, it was like the blink of an eye, when there over my head I wouldnt know how to say. A few meters away, its not that I could give it with my hand, no that was not, but it was very close, it was a huge round thing and it had some small holes that could be said to be little windows in a round shape. It had many, yes sir, I was still, I didnt even want to breathe so that they did not notice my presence. The truth is that I was terrified, that, whatever it was, was a quiet moment.
How long? I asked curiously.
Well, I dont know, because, as I say, the fear I had, the truth is that it certainly wouldnt let me think, but now it seems a bit to me, although I remember that at those moments I only wanted him to leave without seeing me.
And? I went to ask him again, but he kept talking.
Do you know what I feared most? Well, that he would finish going down and crush me. Surely he would leave me sunk in the ground and no one would ever know about me anymore.
And you were not afraid of being taken away? I asked again.
Well, it is that in particular I dont know very well what I thought. Although I think that I didnt even have time to think, only in a moment did it flash, and I saw it rise quickly and disappear, the truth is that I do not know where it went, the sky was totally clear and as much as I looked everywhere, I did not see anything again, and immediately I sat on the ground, my legs were not holding me. I felt the weight of my body, and I was afraid of falling. Once sitting there, I looked everywhere again, and I never saw anything again, and I asked myself, was all that true? Was it there? or I just imagined it.
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A thunder woke me up, how it was raining! I had planned to leave, but that would be almost impossible for me. The motorcycle is safe, but the water does not make the roadway safe, even if I was in bed lying down I decided to postpone that ride. Tomorrow if it stopped raining I would, then something else occurred to me.
I have always liked to keep everything I have found, related to the topic, because I thought Well, today I will spend time reviewing what I have out there and decided I got up, I did not know the surprises that I had that rainy day.
As there was a lot of material that I was taking out from the various places where I had it stored without order, I decided to put it all spread out on the bed, so I would distribute it more or less, I dont know, by dates, or something like that, but after a while there I didnt even have a little hole, so I decided to look for another place and after thinking about it I said to myself What better than the floor! Everything is clean, and nothing is going to spoil them.
I left homework for a bit, and I said to myself Well, its about time for breakfast. I dont want to get messed up because my time flies by.
I looked out the window, how it was raining! Of course, although I would have liked the trip I could not have done it I ate breakfast quickly because it was urgent to continue with all that. I had looked over some of the articles I was working on and realized that despite being mine I had no idea about them, perhaps at the time when I cut them, Id take a look at them, but now I didnt know how much I had collected.
With the cup of coffee in my hand, I remembered how it all started, that teacher with the first class he gave us, never in all my student days, have I been as interested in a subject as this one.
I remember how he told us part of the life of that man, Charlemagne, who was the son of Pipino el Breve.
What a little name! we said, of course, with laughter.
We eat the cucumbers in the salad said one of the students jokingly.
Yes sir! I do that too, but lets be formal, each one has the name given by their parents. Perhaps that is why this man had that little name, because his father, or perhaps his mother, were fond of eating salads and added that ingredient to him the professor said, smiling.
Everyone in the class laughs at that comment.
Well, formality, gentlemen! Lets go on, the professor said. Charlemagne, in his time, was the person who accumulated the most power, but there is something in the narratives of his life which is still very interesting, because he came to the Iberian Peninsula to fight against the Muslims and thus prevent them from continuing to rise towards Europe, and their troops were defeated in the Battle of Roncesvalles, in the Pyrenees of Navarra. You do know that surely. Well, it is also narrated in his life that on one occasion while riding a horse, something got in his way, a luminous object that scared the animal and made the knight hit his bones on the ground.