Waiting for Christmas

Waiting for Christmas, while important things are happening around the world and there is fibrillation everywhere, in the Magone/Margarita street children Shelter life goes on "peacefully".

In this house, fall like a piece of Lego from the hands of a giant child in the middle of a shantytown, the rest of the world seems an abstract painting, a foggy rumor, a kind of mirage trembled by the heat.

So far I figured the most important think for someone like me, a journalist, was to be in the right place at the right time, exactly where the "History" take place. 

Once again I was wrong! At these latitudes the world won't be moved by wars, economic crises, even tornadoes or earthquakes, which here looks like a butterfly beat.

From a place like this it early turns out that the stories to tell are straight into the eyes of those children while they are looking at you with a kind of surprise, because after months you are not yet gone, you haven't left them as their own moms did once, being despair, tired or hungry. 

These guys believe they do not deserve anything, because from the contempt of a mother, the refusal of a father, the beatings and the tortures from those who would have loved them, certainly doesn't come the self-esteem rather fear, self pity, self-injury, disillusionment.

Who are they to expect that someone will consider them as real children, who are if not "bad luck", "feiticos" rejected by their own families?

Here then is where the amazement born, when they realize that someone considers them. That wonder is the sap of life. That wonder is the valuable thing to be preserved, is the seed of the future, is my personal, sensational, breaking news!