Excuse me for joining but I have enjoyed your comments just as much as the story, and wante to add some of my thoughs as well.

I really like short stories and one of the main features I love the most is how they can take our thoughs so far away. They gave us those powerful ideas that we, while reading, or just as soon as we finish reading, start developing more and more... Jus as you guys have done here. The power of nature, of life. Those childhood times...

I have found that nature has the feature of turning down the volume of all those noises that come with routine on our everyday life. It brings us closer to the basics... I have felt that feeling when exploring the mountains and camping at some desert beachs.

I also wanted to share with you a fragment from a story called The Zahir, by Jorge Luis Borges:

Tennyson said that if we could but understand a single flower we would know who we are and what the world is. Perhaps he was trying to say that there is nothing, however humble, that does not imply the history of the world and its infinite concatenation of causes and effects. Perhaps he meant that there is no deed, however humble, that does not imply universal history and its infinite succession of effects and causes. Perhaps he meant that the visible world is complete in each representation, just as Schopenhauer tells us that the Will expresses itself entire in every person.

Hope you like it. Peace.