The saddest memory in the world
He was an unusual guy, he had one of those strange gifts,
he never forgot anything. He remembered
absurd details, exact quantities and even people's clothes. Photographic
memory, that was his gift. He had a complete record of his life, I know that
because he told it to me in great detail. However, the afternoon I found him
sitting in front of the stairs of my house it broke my heart. He cried
heartbrokenly, like a child who discovered electricity in the sockets, like an
adult who discovered the possibility of death, like a teenager who suffers from
those things he lacks. I consoled him, hugged him, tried to tell him that
everything was going to be fine, but I didn't understand why he was crying. He
explained to me with his tongue turned into a knot, his throat tied, his throat
hyperventilating, his lungs tight on his chest, anguish coming out of his eyes.
I spoke of my day to distract him, to corrupt his perfect memory and to forget
what he remembered. There was my mistake, probably, because the more I tried to
mislead him with some subject, the more he cried. I didn't know what to do, I
was desperately looking for a solution to that unstoppable cry. I saw myself
between a sword and a wall, a wall without a beam, without support, a wall that
ended up crushing me. I sat next to him and began to cry, not out of solidarity,
but out of the frustration of not being able to help him. My sadness calmed him
down. He closed his tears, he calmed his breath. I began to tell him the
motivational phrases that we all already know, then serenely he told me the
words that destroyed me. You know, my memory remembers everything, except one
thing, I don't remember being happy. - I cried so much after those words that I
have never been able to forget it.
F. JaBieR
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