waiting for the bus I was so used to my stop 19, after leaving the seat of the faculty of social sciences Centennial Park, when suddenly I feel the warm embrace of a stranger. I fail to react before the subject in question, a guy my age masomenos (Heaven knows, I'm very bad for guessing ages), I start counting the most recent events of his life story. It seems, as he said, that were long just a police station and "I had to hide the iron" he says pointing to the pocket where he took refuge an imperceptible (and do not know if real) gun. I listened attentively and tried to look into his eyes, pretty calm considering the circumstances. Then out of nowhere (not what wine), I said to have AIDS and deliberately cut (die without knowing why), showing some cuts on his arm, had already healed.
Aha ... well, yes, the guy wanted money, obviously. I was holding the neck in an apparent friendly gesture with his left arm but I understand very well that his intentions were not all friendly. I asked a coin to travel and I agree to give a weight that I kept in my pocket along with a currency of equal value, one of ten cents and two dollars a ticket. He gets the money and tells me he's with a friend, and asks me if I have more. "Yes, I have another, but I need to go" I say, to which I replied "are you going to say that you do not have a ticket for two dollars?" I look at any place with an expression of reluctance, I get the ticket and I give it. "Why do you say you had no more if you had?" Says the gentle young man reproachfully, as a father chastises his young son by telling lies. I with great honesty he will answer me had asked for coins and actually only one that I had planned to use for my trip home. The explanation seemed to satisfy him, since then asks me if I needed the money he had given before or if you have enough money to travel. Well, obviously not going to say that I sent back, so I just say "I have another, but if you want to give it back all right" (it's funny to remember this, Who knew I was going to react like that?). But he wanted me back, take her (because now they were his) three dollars, and (I think it was at this time, although it could have been a little before) asked me why I was scared (Apparently showed me afraid, certainly was.) "Not for nothing, I'm just a paranoid type," I say (again honestly, though he has concealed many things at that time thought about the situation.) Finally the game ends with a funny "I'm calling to cellular one day" my new friend who heard a few meters ahead to tell someone you know who "get a drink." Surely that last sentence was a tacit "the idiot of glasses invited."
How could it be otherwise, after this I started to think about many things. Do not know if that had been a theft or a simple loan to the force. I finally decided there is not much difference. It is true that the treatment was quite flexible (by the way I cooperated with it), but the fact remains that I did not want to give you three dollars. I could not help thinking at the time that the three dollars I had just bought my freedom. Freedom not to be violated in some way, either with his supposed "iron" or the more supposedly gadget with which to cut also, probably imbued with the disease which claimed unwanted. This last idea scared me more, and immediately felt disgusted by the hand, a violent hand, that God knows where one will last, having rested so long in my neck. I felt terrible to think (thanks to me and confessed paranoia) that this type might me infected with the virus only touch me, or maybe making me a wound that I could not perceive (ridiculous, I know). Poor HIV carriers, my thoughts offend each and every one of them, so I tried to remove them from my mind as soon as possible.
Although I had bought my freedom, I was given a degraded freedom, a freedom to go home, sit on my computer and write this, but devoid of three dollars. No, I do not care about three dollars, I'll do the poor. Silver is the least of what I'm going is to the decision, mine, only mine, what to do with my will, expressed only by the circumstances of this story, in this bill and that currency. And that made me reflect that we are constantly buying our freedom, which is supposed to be ours, from the moment we are born, but we are taken away by someone and we are always degraded returns in exchange for a piece of the same sacrifice to possess the most part, it is becoming smaller. And I could complain about that undesirable hours individual, consistent with that little Macri on my shoulder, like a cartoon devil, I said "Did you see that I have right?." I ignored him, haunted him in the act as he scares a mosquito that buzzes in your ear. I might complain hours, but What's the point? He only took three dollars, presumably to ensure some satisfaction to unwind from a miserable life. And even had the consideration to ask if I reached the money to go back to my house! What is it when compared with that mass of people who every day we impose by force the very high and unfair prices at which our freedoms recover degraded? Nothing. Nothing compared with the entrepreneurs who make us give up freedom of living wages, job opportunities or times of détente. Nothing compared to the increasing ads that force us to leave blank walls, scenic or urban landscapes transparent windows through which to look at the collective as we travel by themselves are other costs we pay as well. Nothing compared to those leaving thousands of people die of hunger and ignorance. These people are paying very high prices a freedom that if nothing else would be degraded. Living statues, robots of manners. We are all constantly buying
this freedom degraded and become our creditors are those that we really should. And if today or tomorrow for any of those coincidences of life stab me miserable for three dollars, it can be a note or a limp Clarin argument possible candidate to fill some spaces in the legislature or Congress. Either one or the other may terminate in the street there is no freedom to walk or take money at the same time we sell one and degraded our freedoms again.