We lived in a small community, at the foot of a huge mountain, isolated from the bustle of the city and complex technological equipment. The children received education from home for a couple of hours a day, and then we divided ourselves into daily tasks such as helping adults in the collection of vegetables, legumes and fruits, drawing water from the well and supplying it to each home, going down to the river with baskets of clothes to wash, prepare the newlyweds... In short, everything that children under eight years of age could do.
By then, I was not allowed anything beyond watering the medicinal plants in the yards and feeding the chickens from the fence. It is incredible how the absence of a sense assumes that you will be convalescing for life; the adults treated you with great care, they whispered or spoke so softly as if they were afraid they would take away another sense from me if they offended me; the children were a little more obvious, they avoided dealing with me as one avoids a sure whipping from his parents. They all preferred to save themselves the trouble.
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