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Welcome to the Space-Tree
Fr. Juan Noite, S.C.J.
(Venezuela/Portugal)
When you are a child, you have your heroes that you want to imitate. These heroes are the reason for your jokes and inspire competition with your friends. I spent my childhood in the beginning of the eighties, and in that time who does not remember the TV science-fiction shows such as Gallactica, Star Wars, Buck Rogers or Space 1999? I remember then as if it were today, and these shows became the basis of the games that I played when I was eight years old.
I remember all the afternoons that we were playing in our "intergalactic tree", as we thought of it, in the backyard of my aunt's house. These were beautiful times that I remember so well; but, as you know, the life of a hero is not only success: it has its own pains too. Talking about pains, I remember once that I was playing alone in my "intergallactic tree", fighting space aliens and pretending that I was taking my usual travel to the stars when suddenly I fell out of the tree! I was lucky, because a brier patch of plants supported me in my fall, but it was a big surprise for me! All that I know now is that I have never told this to anybody, and I have stopped joking around with UFO trees!
Well, this simple fact reminded me that in everyone's lives there are heroes who can become our models. These models help construct your personality as you are growing up, and they give you ideals to live up to. If you are still playing in a tree, they can help you to grow up. Discovering your limits helps you to climb and to also sometimes experience a fall in the real world, and this is all part of life and helps you to know your capacities and limitations. At least for me, it was helpful to discover the limits and the differences between a spaceship and an earthly tree!
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