Beyond any limits - A story freewrite

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Beyond any limits

Why shouldn't they help themselves, after the way they were treated? Everything indicated that the cycle was continuing, as a circus dog cannot understand when it is time to shake off the fleas and fight for something more than the habit of judgment.

It was late, so late that Germán could not remember if there was already a moon or a sun, both seemed to fill the sky with their light. Because Selene appeared just like a sign in the sky, the one that everybody looks for as support to get out of a bad trance, however, the fear of change had him paralyzed. He was so used to the lack of confidence in the future, to the tears, to the visceral pain of flowing with the wear and tear of the chemotherapies, that he was about to let this rapture of shooting stars go by in company.

"It's not easy, Germán, I know," Selene insisted, "I myself have gone through what you are going through, but I also know that now is not the time to complain. Pity doesn't help us, we have to go out into the street to be in tune with the sky, we have to take the bull by the horns and bend it until we feel that it's ours, that it won't attack, but on the contrary, it will guide the next action which is to face this, self-motivated..."

(End of five minutes)

"... You cannot go through life bent over, trained to obey, you have to rebel against the circus, that mirage of water and salt, and go through the real seas, through the dreams hidden behind the horizon, even if they are ephemeral. Everything that is intense must be ephemeral, from the ephemeral is nourished the eternal and love, love always prevails even if it seems condemned. Love as you are, forgive your body with its illness, and the miracle of fulfillment will be given to you for as long as it takes to be happy."

Do you really believe that?" mused Germán in a muffled little voice, with a thread of hope wrapped around it.

Of course! Let's not fall into the trap of affecting the audience, let's thank them for their empathetic gesture, but let's move on, the play must go on... When and how, heaven only knows, we will leave the stage with the best performance of our lives. Life is ahead of us, beyond any limits.