On 6th of November a quarter of a century has passed since i first saw the light of day. A small and fragile yarn of meat refused to meet the cold and bright new environment. This "self-preservation instinct" was in fact the decisive factor of it's future life. Being deprived of the much needed "fresh" air, brain cells started to die before their time. On the long run this would lead to a semi-paralysis that would affect both the arms and the legs of the "man" to come.
Signs of this problem appeared shortly, while his parents noticed that the child would not be able to sit on his bottom. The walking part came at around the age of 2 after a few sessions of acupuncture (i don't really believe in coincidences). He wasn't able to walk like normal children of his age, but he needed to "hug" walls, chairs, tables or other fixed solid surfaces from his reach. Doctors thought that the child was suffering of Rickets (Rachitis) and gave the wrong treatment for his illness. The boy was treated with spinal infiltrations, but his condition wouldn't change. A few years later he was diagnosed with Pyramidal Spastic Tetraparesis (sorry but i don't know the English medical terminology), and then he received all kind of treatments varying from shock therapy to drug therapy.
Between the ages of 8 and 14 he passed through various surgeries and recovery stages in which his condition improved slightly, but after every surgical intervention he had to relearn how to sit and walk, just like newborns do. The inability to control your own body is a fearful thing to pass trough, but he endured it with brio because he had his family around him.
During this time his life would be divided only between school, physical exercises and recovery exercises, learning new things from universal dictionaries and watching tv. Being unable to really make friends, meant that most of his time was spent alone in his room or outside around the apartment house in which he lived. This quasi solitude taught him to love life, as he always had time to observe the trees, the flowers, the animals and the humans that surrounded him. They grew more beautiful the more he watched them. But his thirst didn't stopped at things that were around. The boy turned his face up towards the sky and fell in love with the vastness of the space dreaming of cruising among the stars and planets (he dreamt just like any other kid).
High school brought nothing new, but the admission at the University saw changes in that life. Sometime during this time frame he knew Gaby which changed his life for good. She showed him how beautiful his country could be and how traveling could fill some holes inside ones soul. Cities like Brasov, Sighisoara, Sibiu, Rasnov or Medias were embedded in his mind and enlarged the horizon that before consisted of mostly his home city. Gaby gave some meaning to his life and showed him some of the good sides a human can have. Above this, she taught him insights into other humans hearts and how people think and act in various circumstances.
The boy graduated the Bachelor Program with high marks and then he applied for a Masters Degree with he finished and graduated 2 years later.
Now he has all of his future in front of him and he waits for all the wonderful things that this life has prepared for him. (or so he hopes).
