Those were the days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KODZtjOIPg Those were the days. We laughed because happiness was real, something we would enjoy forever, something that nobody would steal from us. We hadn’t already put a label on it, we knew it existed because we experienced it whatever it was. We were brave back then. Life was eternal, nothing could harm us. We were invincible like those heroes in the cartoons we watched in TV. And thus, we were not afraid of anything, not of pain, not of the future, not of other people… We cried; in fact, we cried a lot. Probably we hadn't learnt to cry for happiness, but we hadn't either learned to cry for pain. That crying was ephemeral and disappeared at the moment so the happy life could continue. Most of the time, it was like a shooting star in the sky: not knowing its origin, not knowing its destination, only knowing that it will be there only the blink of an eye. We were bold and unconscious of everything that surrounded us. The world was what we could imagine, the people, those we could reach, see and touch. We knew it was immense, but we didn't manage to understand it. Time was going away slowly as a lame snail. Those days, my friend, that lame snail, has already past. We learned to cry. Our tears have the same salted flavor, but the tracks they leave in our cheeks are much deeper, eternal scars in our skin and in our soul. We also have learned to wipe other people's tears away, knowing how it feels when the soul storms through the eyes leaving the body almost empty. That's a miracle. We have learned that, most of the time, those who surround us are more important than us because we know they give sense to our life, they are our life. We also have learned to truly enjoy everything, especially those little things that we didn't appreciate back then, because we know we are not immortal, that everything will pass and that we can't postpone it, because if we do it, we can find ourselves with everything to give, but no one to give it to. We look in the mirror and see what we've become. We see our bodies, and we see our souls. We know they will keep on changing and tomorrow we will be different. And today will belong to those days.