Post by MenelaosGkikas on Jul 14, 2022 20:02:21 GMT
It was summer and Richie (11 years old) together with his parents had just returned from Sunday liturgy. After the breakfast his mother motivated him to read excerpts from the New Testament. Richie answered that he considers it boring though he would prefer to live and not to read, distinguishing the real world from those of books. He was a spoiled little boy that would want everything ready, without toil and without any obstacle that would make him operate differently, like devoting time to reading.
“Religion, Richie, initiates us to rules that we must all follow in our relationships, in school and in our jobs…!” his mother began with a critical tone.
“Yes mom. We wake up every morning for the divine liturgy.”
“Do you think that physical presence is enough? How many times have you done the opposites? How many times have you hurt and mock your friends because they are weaker and poorer than you?”
Richie, in essence a rich kid that would try to find his stepping stones at school and be distinguished, had started to transform his fears, his agony and his craving for acceptance by the olders and accomplishments, in a vendetta towards his classmates.
His tactic and his mentality were not liked by his mother that would try to inculcate the spirit of Christianity every Sunday and buy him fairytales with the hope that these would cultivate his thought. Richie had a big library with fairytales, some of which he had read and some of which he had discussed with his parents.
One day his teacher informed him about a poetry competition in which he could participate. Richie, with a concealed admiral towards the world of letters accepted to participate hence he would write a poem. Even though the poem was commendated, Rich had a big road in front of him before his words would match with his actions…
One night the library next to his bed started to light up with a golden stardust, books would start to move slightly and sounds from the world of fairytales to be heard softly inside the room. Riche woke up and surprised he re-sat on his bed.
The golden breeze around the books would call him to approach them. Richie stood up and was directed towards the library taking at his hands the book with The Ugly Duckling of Andersen. A story about a duck that is being mocked by its alike, which they see that since it differs in shape and color, they do not predict its transfiguration in the future into a beautiful swan…! A teaching on change and transformation towards the better.
Suddenly an inexplicable force started to try to suck Richie’s being inside the world of Andersen. A little while though before this happens, the bad wizard Sion appeared next to the library.
The wizard Sion would hate fairytales and by the recognition of a vulnerable and fragile personality like that of Richie, he would try to take away the heroes from children. Depending on the story as well as which of those clicked the soul of Richie, he was determined even to extinguish fairytale heroes.
The force became unsurpassed and suddenly Richie, in a world coming out of an Andersen fairytale was found to discuss with a majestic swan.
“It’s important to belong to a team…” the swan responded to Richie.
“My parents say to me that I must learn to stand on my own powers and this for me begins by my lessons and not the sets of people” answered Richie with confidence.
Richie talked for a while with the beautiful swan that guided the tour at its house and introduced him to its friends.
The wizarding world of fairytales was alternating with the real one. Richie suddenly, as if with a magic wand he would shift into some fairytaland in which time would stop as to the real world, up until he would reset to the point where he began. When Richie returned from the fairytale with The Ugly Duckling of Andersen he went to sleep and the next day he went to school.
The bad wizard Sion would make sure to intervene in Richie’s mind. The real face of evil is invisible to humans and for the time being it would take away Richie both from the ideas of fairytales as well as family advices on personal power. He would want to weaken Richie and make him lose faith in himself.
Richie had varied books with fairytales in his library. The little match girl again by Andersen, The wonderful adventures of Nils Holgersson as well as The Christmas Pig by Rowling were some of these!
Richie by stopping to attend his teacher in the class he immediately travelled with his mind in these stories.
An afternoon next to the library, by opening the Christmas story of the great fairytaler, he travelled in a Christmas town, talking to a little girl that would sell matches at streets, by lighting them to get warmth, through which she would see visions and imagining family snugness. Now exhausted and lighting the last match a little while before the apparition of her grandma shift her spirit to Heaven, Richie acquires the supernatural capability of being a wizard by which he had the power to animate the magical world of fairytales in reality, in his house and in his world. Even though this was a world that only Richie could see and perceive.
Richie would feel the need to discover a new world, magical, even a temporarily omnipotent one, only to escape his own. He had betrayed his old friends, by continuously comparing them with other people, favoring those that would seem to him more walked, more advanced, more powerful and sometimes, before he could be able to see through it yet, more sneaky and maybe a little bit more punks….
Though with magic and journeys into fairytalands, he would make his dream come true! Grabbing the fairytale with The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson, a hero that was alike his characteristics (mocking, inventing pranks, always liking to eat and hitting the animals) and having for quite a bit time the attribute of a wizard, the first click in his soul occurred with regard to the world of letters. Richie’s poem had been awarded, the descriptions were a mirror and little by little he would start to discover a world that would make him forget his hardships with his friends and his lessons.
A role though at this mission had been the one of the bad wizard Sion as well…!
Richie had decided to animate Nils Holgersson in his room! He showed exceptional love and admiral in the story of Nils that in this case was mocking and hurting the animals. He would also assume in fact that he and Nils could become best friends. The hero of the fairytale animated and started to entangle in dialogues with Richie.
“The man, Richie, believes he is unique, that nothing else matters besides himself and that he has the right to mock and hurt defenseless cattle. Up until today they don’t remember a single day passed without hunting and troubles. Maybe this is the moral lesson you have to understand with regard to my story”.
“Your journey above the entire Sweden aiming Lapland was unique, Nils. I would be glad a lot if we could re-live this story, the two of us! I want to ride a goose as well!”
“If you manage to learn from my passions as well as your own in this case, I believe we could have to do a lot together in the future!”
“Of course, we have” Richie replied. “I’m a wizard! And as a wizard I can spend every day with you, as well as with the fairytales I love.”
The bad wizard Sion had started to flush and blowing smokes. Richie was about to be driven in redemption based on Nils’s story and fairytales and Sion would not see with a good eye such a freedom. Suddenly the room started to fill up with Nils’s friends. Animals, birds and various forms of the animal kingdom started to fill up the space wanting to make Richie do not misrecognize love, goodness as well as the natural world that taught so many things to their own hero.
“How many things you have to learn with love, Richie!” Nils responded. “Neither the books can teach them to you nor I.”
The cattle started to dance, puppies started to rub on Richie’s legs and some birds to sit on his shoulders.
“We love you, Richie!” exclaimed a good little animal. “We can do so many things together!”
Sion was reaching his limits… Enraged with the evolution, he started to think of ways he could burn the bridges of Richie with this world, hit Nils and possibly imprison him in his story, without Nils could come out again.
“Everything starts by the world of letters” Nils responded. “That’s the inception of all sources of violence, misconception and evil spirit.”
The bad wizard Sion, could not stand the evolution anymore, he directed a magical spell muting Nils, immobilizing him and progressively imprisoning him into the fairytale.
Suddenly, as if the room was shaken, a strong peal was heard, as if some spell and dark forces were broken and The Christmas Pig animated on its own, without the contribution of Richie, in his room.
Perceiving the malice and the evilness of Sion, it wanted to pass its own message to Richie based on its story.
“Our fairytale is inaccessible to Sion and his malice, Richie, but also the entire world of fairytales is affected only at your own world, not theirs!”
“What do you mean?” asked Richie terrified based on the events.
“Fairytales’ heroes will always be grateful that you loved them, Richie. They can live based on these moments forever… Your love and goodness have highlighted them into your best friends and you can talk with them whenever you want! The bad wizard Sion will no longer be able to harm others.”
Richie learned that in life many targets are only achieved by overthrowing. In this case, the overthrowing of Nils that had been transformed into a dwarf. Shocked as well as moved by the events, still he couldn’t talk, but he would definitely take many decisions now that the world of fairytales had become his own!
Days, weeks and months would pass by and now Richie he would put even more and more effort into his lessons, travelling in parallel in one or two fairytales. He had become hard-working, diligent, insisting with regard to his performance but also sometimes headstrong. He had learnt so well the advice his parents had given to him, to be able to stand on his own powers, that now he would rarely consult them beyond the absolutely necessary.
His parents had become acceptors of his success at school, even though the world of lessons had become unapproachable for them. Richie had to make it on his own. Up until Christmas arrived and his school report had a big excellent written on it! Richie had transformed into a polite, hard-working boy full of confidence and success.
He had understood that the quest of common denominators with people could be quested into descriptions, into the world of letters and its hermeneutics and that his identity had a dual being into the world of storytelling…!
Suddenly, at Christmas Eve something really unexpectable happened. Under the Christmas tree there was a goose, as a gift to Ritchie by his parents. Moved, he caressed it remembering the story of Nils. And then abruptly, though Nils had broken the sorcery of bad Sion, he appeared in front of him alive. Before Richie could even find the time to answer, he understood that Nils’s story had been confirmed. The little hero had become again what he was like before, in his room. And then, a little while before he started to speak, Nils caught up with him.
“Merry Christmas Richie!” Nils responded by giving him a friendly tap on his shoulder.
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“Religion, Richie, initiates us to rules that we must all follow in our relationships, in school and in our jobs…!” his mother began with a critical tone.
“Yes mom. We wake up every morning for the divine liturgy.”
“Do you think that physical presence is enough? How many times have you done the opposites? How many times have you hurt and mock your friends because they are weaker and poorer than you?”
Richie, in essence a rich kid that would try to find his stepping stones at school and be distinguished, had started to transform his fears, his agony and his craving for acceptance by the olders and accomplishments, in a vendetta towards his classmates.
His tactic and his mentality were not liked by his mother that would try to inculcate the spirit of Christianity every Sunday and buy him fairytales with the hope that these would cultivate his thought. Richie had a big library with fairytales, some of which he had read and some of which he had discussed with his parents.
One day his teacher informed him about a poetry competition in which he could participate. Richie, with a concealed admiral towards the world of letters accepted to participate hence he would write a poem. Even though the poem was commendated, Rich had a big road in front of him before his words would match with his actions…
One night the library next to his bed started to light up with a golden stardust, books would start to move slightly and sounds from the world of fairytales to be heard softly inside the room. Riche woke up and surprised he re-sat on his bed.
The golden breeze around the books would call him to approach them. Richie stood up and was directed towards the library taking at his hands the book with The Ugly Duckling of Andersen. A story about a duck that is being mocked by its alike, which they see that since it differs in shape and color, they do not predict its transfiguration in the future into a beautiful swan…! A teaching on change and transformation towards the better.
Suddenly an inexplicable force started to try to suck Richie’s being inside the world of Andersen. A little while though before this happens, the bad wizard Sion appeared next to the library.
The wizard Sion would hate fairytales and by the recognition of a vulnerable and fragile personality like that of Richie, he would try to take away the heroes from children. Depending on the story as well as which of those clicked the soul of Richie, he was determined even to extinguish fairytale heroes.
The force became unsurpassed and suddenly Richie, in a world coming out of an Andersen fairytale was found to discuss with a majestic swan.
“It’s important to belong to a team…” the swan responded to Richie.
“My parents say to me that I must learn to stand on my own powers and this for me begins by my lessons and not the sets of people” answered Richie with confidence.
Richie talked for a while with the beautiful swan that guided the tour at its house and introduced him to its friends.
The wizarding world of fairytales was alternating with the real one. Richie suddenly, as if with a magic wand he would shift into some fairytaland in which time would stop as to the real world, up until he would reset to the point where he began. When Richie returned from the fairytale with The Ugly Duckling of Andersen he went to sleep and the next day he went to school.
The bad wizard Sion would make sure to intervene in Richie’s mind. The real face of evil is invisible to humans and for the time being it would take away Richie both from the ideas of fairytales as well as family advices on personal power. He would want to weaken Richie and make him lose faith in himself.
Richie had varied books with fairytales in his library. The little match girl again by Andersen, The wonderful adventures of Nils Holgersson as well as The Christmas Pig by Rowling were some of these!
Richie by stopping to attend his teacher in the class he immediately travelled with his mind in these stories.
An afternoon next to the library, by opening the Christmas story of the great fairytaler, he travelled in a Christmas town, talking to a little girl that would sell matches at streets, by lighting them to get warmth, through which she would see visions and imagining family snugness. Now exhausted and lighting the last match a little while before the apparition of her grandma shift her spirit to Heaven, Richie acquires the supernatural capability of being a wizard by which he had the power to animate the magical world of fairytales in reality, in his house and in his world. Even though this was a world that only Richie could see and perceive.
Richie would feel the need to discover a new world, magical, even a temporarily omnipotent one, only to escape his own. He had betrayed his old friends, by continuously comparing them with other people, favoring those that would seem to him more walked, more advanced, more powerful and sometimes, before he could be able to see through it yet, more sneaky and maybe a little bit more punks….
Though with magic and journeys into fairytalands, he would make his dream come true! Grabbing the fairytale with The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson, a hero that was alike his characteristics (mocking, inventing pranks, always liking to eat and hitting the animals) and having for quite a bit time the attribute of a wizard, the first click in his soul occurred with regard to the world of letters. Richie’s poem had been awarded, the descriptions were a mirror and little by little he would start to discover a world that would make him forget his hardships with his friends and his lessons.
A role though at this mission had been the one of the bad wizard Sion as well…!
Richie had decided to animate Nils Holgersson in his room! He showed exceptional love and admiral in the story of Nils that in this case was mocking and hurting the animals. He would also assume in fact that he and Nils could become best friends. The hero of the fairytale animated and started to entangle in dialogues with Richie.
“The man, Richie, believes he is unique, that nothing else matters besides himself and that he has the right to mock and hurt defenseless cattle. Up until today they don’t remember a single day passed without hunting and troubles. Maybe this is the moral lesson you have to understand with regard to my story”.
“Your journey above the entire Sweden aiming Lapland was unique, Nils. I would be glad a lot if we could re-live this story, the two of us! I want to ride a goose as well!”
“If you manage to learn from my passions as well as your own in this case, I believe we could have to do a lot together in the future!”
“Of course, we have” Richie replied. “I’m a wizard! And as a wizard I can spend every day with you, as well as with the fairytales I love.”
The bad wizard Sion had started to flush and blowing smokes. Richie was about to be driven in redemption based on Nils’s story and fairytales and Sion would not see with a good eye such a freedom. Suddenly the room started to fill up with Nils’s friends. Animals, birds and various forms of the animal kingdom started to fill up the space wanting to make Richie do not misrecognize love, goodness as well as the natural world that taught so many things to their own hero.
“How many things you have to learn with love, Richie!” Nils responded. “Neither the books can teach them to you nor I.”
The cattle started to dance, puppies started to rub on Richie’s legs and some birds to sit on his shoulders.
“We love you, Richie!” exclaimed a good little animal. “We can do so many things together!”
Sion was reaching his limits… Enraged with the evolution, he started to think of ways he could burn the bridges of Richie with this world, hit Nils and possibly imprison him in his story, without Nils could come out again.
“Everything starts by the world of letters” Nils responded. “That’s the inception of all sources of violence, misconception and evil spirit.”
The bad wizard Sion, could not stand the evolution anymore, he directed a magical spell muting Nils, immobilizing him and progressively imprisoning him into the fairytale.
Suddenly, as if the room was shaken, a strong peal was heard, as if some spell and dark forces were broken and The Christmas Pig animated on its own, without the contribution of Richie, in his room.
Perceiving the malice and the evilness of Sion, it wanted to pass its own message to Richie based on its story.
“Our fairytale is inaccessible to Sion and his malice, Richie, but also the entire world of fairytales is affected only at your own world, not theirs!”
“What do you mean?” asked Richie terrified based on the events.
“Fairytales’ heroes will always be grateful that you loved them, Richie. They can live based on these moments forever… Your love and goodness have highlighted them into your best friends and you can talk with them whenever you want! The bad wizard Sion will no longer be able to harm others.”
Richie learned that in life many targets are only achieved by overthrowing. In this case, the overthrowing of Nils that had been transformed into a dwarf. Shocked as well as moved by the events, still he couldn’t talk, but he would definitely take many decisions now that the world of fairytales had become his own!
Days, weeks and months would pass by and now Richie he would put even more and more effort into his lessons, travelling in parallel in one or two fairytales. He had become hard-working, diligent, insisting with regard to his performance but also sometimes headstrong. He had learnt so well the advice his parents had given to him, to be able to stand on his own powers, that now he would rarely consult them beyond the absolutely necessary.
His parents had become acceptors of his success at school, even though the world of lessons had become unapproachable for them. Richie had to make it on his own. Up until Christmas arrived and his school report had a big excellent written on it! Richie had transformed into a polite, hard-working boy full of confidence and success.
He had understood that the quest of common denominators with people could be quested into descriptions, into the world of letters and its hermeneutics and that his identity had a dual being into the world of storytelling…!
Suddenly, at Christmas Eve something really unexpectable happened. Under the Christmas tree there was a goose, as a gift to Ritchie by his parents. Moved, he caressed it remembering the story of Nils. And then abruptly, though Nils had broken the sorcery of bad Sion, he appeared in front of him alive. Before Richie could even find the time to answer, he understood that Nils’s story had been confirmed. The little hero had become again what he was like before, in his room. And then, a little while before he started to speak, Nils caught up with him.
“Merry Christmas Richie!” Nils responded by giving him a friendly tap on his shoulder.
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