One day I got in a hurry and with great appetite to a restaurant. I chose a table well away from the movement, because I wanted to take the few minutes I had , used to eat and specify some programming ideas was developing a system that also wanted to plan my vacation, that long ago that I could not enjoy. I ordered a salmon dish with capers , salad and orange juice. While waiting , I opened my notebook and I was about to work , when I felt over my shoulder a gentle voice saying to me : - Sir , you have a coin for me ? - No, I have not small . Answer . - Only a penny to buy bread . All right , Ill buy one . For a change, my email box was filled with e- mails. I was distracted reading poetry , cute messages and smiling at those jokes sent to us all , as a beautiful melody Im transported to Italy , reminding me of a beautiful past. Sorry sir, you can ask the waitress to put the bread a bit of butter and cheese. Then I realized that the small was still beside me. I had completely forgotten . All right , but then I leave work , Im busy right? When the waitress brought the food I asked him to bring bread for the little and she asked me if I wanted to take the child to another place . My conscience prevented me say yes and instead told him that the child would eat me and asked that instead of bread, will bring a hearty lunch . Then the boy sat across from me and asked - What are you doing ? Im reading e- mails. - So what are e- mails ? - Are electronic messages sent by people on the Internet. I knew I would not understand anything , and to avoid more questions I said, It is like a letter , just sent over the Internet . - Do you have internet? - If I have , is essential in todays world . - What is Internet? - It is a place on your computer where you can see and hear many things , news, music , meet people , read, write , dream , work, learn . It has everything but in a virtual world . - So what is virtual ? How do I explain ? I thought, so I decided to give it a very simple explanation . -Virtual is a place we imagine, something we can not touch or reach . A place to create a lot of things we like to do. We create our own fantasies and we can transform the world as we would like it to be. -Great, I love it! - So you know what is virtual ? Yes sir , because I live in this virtual world . - Do you have a computer ? - No sir , but my world is also virtual . My mother spends all day away from home , comes too late , exhausted and almost did not see it. I spend a lot of time caring for my little brother who lives crying with hunger , give him warm soup into believing he is hoping that will take your hunger . My older sister goes all day, says it will sell her body , but I do not understand , because she always comes back with his body. My father is in jail long ago. And I always imagine my whole family together at home, with lots of food , lots of toys like Christmas and I imagine going to school for one day to be a great doctor . - Does not this is virtual ? I closed my notebook , unable to keep any of my tears fall on the keyboard. I waited for the boy ended literally devour your plate , paid the bill and gave him the small change that rewarded me with one of the most beautiful and sincere smiles I had ever received in my life , and also a Thank sir, you are a master! In that moment , I had the biggest virtual definition of the word . Virtual is the insane world in which we live every day, until the cruel reality we perceive around us
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:34:30 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015