Sleeping
Once upon a time, there was a man tired of his existence. Imagine a stressful life with few satisfactions. One day he quit his job, left his family, and with a hammock in his arm, went into a forest, where he hoped to find an abandoned house that he knew as a child. At first, he couldn’t remember where it was, and for a moment he thought it had been demolished. Finally, he found it. It was badly damaged, but less than he expected. Its windows, apart from broken, were scratched. There were cans of beer, cigarettes, used condoms and some feces, everywhere. The man had come out with a certain amount of money, destined to buy what was necessary to fix that house. He went to the nearest supermarket and bought brooms, cleaners, cloths, garbage bags, a rake, rat poison, insecticides, some hooks, a thick rope, and a mask. He returned to the abandoned house and cleaned it during the afternoon of that day, night and early morning. For the next day, the house looked better. Then he installed the hammock in a stronger corner of the house with hooks and rope. When he made sure that it would support his weight, he leaned back, took some pills, and fell asleep immediately. Finally, he was able to start his rest.
At nine hours later he woke up. It was getting dark. The dark corner of the house hugged him, pulling him away from the outside surrounded by trees murmuring in the twilight, intermittent, cold breeze. It was a long time since he had delighted in being lost in silence. He went back to sleep. He dreamed that he was a boy who came with his family to a new neighborhood, where the houses were small, far from each other but similar to each other. A cold, intermittent breeze greeted them. During the day children were heard playing and at night the murmur of a nearby forest. One morning his three-year-old dog ran away from home and desperately searched for him all over the neighborhood. He asked about him and nobody knew about the dog until a lady suggested that he look for it in the forest. Then he went into the forest, where he found an abandoned house. He was able to open his door with great ease. He walked through the house until he came to a room. A hammock and a dead man were lying on it.
