State of Lucidity

Yasashii Hikarimaru is a seven-year-old boy with a lot of potential. Yasashii loves reading, he reads every readable writing that catches his eye. When the book of the day comes, he leaves the food, the bed and the reality and dives in the pages swallowing lines and images like ramen noodles.
He also loves logical puzzles. He doesn't know why he always keeps in mind how many square tiles it takes to go from a room to another, and it doesn't matter if that habit seems odd to his friends as long as he finds it funny.

Yasashii has no fear for he was brought up to be responsible like big folks. He remembers clearly when mama tells him to fold his clothes or when she asks him to keep an eye on his baby brothers.
"You are a little man and you should behave like one", she tells him.
He also remembers his first day at the kindergarten. He was four back then and his younger brother who was three was crying out loud asking mama not to leave them..
"Mama come back! Mama don't leave us! MAMA!!"
Unfortunately for him, mama was in a big hurry that day, she left the two kids. Yasashii didn't say a thing, he was discovering this new world, he was wondering how come those little kids can't even count to ten let alone to a hundred. Some other bigger than him was sweeping the flowing snot with his sleeve trying to focus on some blocks he had put together in a meaningless form.
That place was not funny at all.
Yet, he learnt some few things there, and the most of all he became a real boy. He became as mischievous and sadistic as any boy of his age. When wisdom vanishes, he flies with his two younger brothers to the forest beyond the graveyard. They spend all day long climbing trees like little monkeys. They pick up insects, frogs and whatever small living things they could find in their way. And, they play soccer on the plains until sunset.

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One day, mama called Yasashii, she picked her offspring up, kissed him and turned her cheek to have a kiss back. She sat down on the couch and put the little boy in her lap, gave him a warm look and asked :
- Yasashii! Do you love mama?
- Of course!
- Tell me why?
- Because you are mama and if I don't love mama I will love nothing..
- Nothing.. Hmm.. What is the nothing? 
- I don't know.. But, nothing is worth nothing.
- How is that?
- You told me once when I eat too much candy my teeth will decay and that will hurt a lot. But, grandpa told me if I brush my teeth it's okay to eat candy.
- Don't you forget that! And, What about things? What are things?
- They are a lot, but, all things are not everything.
- What do you mean by that?
- Every day in school the teacher tells us about new things that we didn't know.
- Good boy! You have to pay attention, though..
- The other day, in the television the man said that there are things that are real and other things that aren't real; and in the things that aren't real there are things that people think they are real and other things that they know they aren't real.
- Do you mean reality, illusion and imagination?
- Yep! I think so..
- Alright, do you know the difference between reality and illusion?
- A reality could be an illusion, but, an illusion is not the reality.
- What makes you say that?
- When we go to collect little grasshoppers in the fields, I was thinking that a grasshopper was a part of the tree, but the other day I read in a book that it is another thing.
- Promise me to keep out of the fields my little child, it's not safe there..
- Okay!

- Good kid! Now, do you know what the brain is?
- Yes, I do!
- Do you know what's inside the brain?
- Everything is inside the brain, and anything could be outside of it.
- How could that be?
- The teacher told us that we have five senses and that we use them to make the world inside our brains. It's okay for kids to have only five, but the teacher told us that even big people have five senses too. Five is a little number.. And what about blind people? They have only four senses, don't they? Does a blind person know what the green color is?
- I don't think so, and that's really unfortunate..
- So a blind person doesn't know the truth about colors?
- It depends.. What about the truth itself? How many truths do you think there are?
- I don't know the number and I think it's bigger than a hundred, but, the truth is the one, and other truths are ones..
- How come?
- The other day, Jessy and Jane did a big fight because Jessy said that a crocodile is a big lizard and Jane said that it was a huge ugly fish. I think Jessy said the truth but I don't think Jane lied.
- I see.. So a crocodile and a lizard are the same thing?
- I don't think so.. Similar are not the same, and similar should be the same.
- So they are not the same?
- No they aren't! In school sometimes we write something with a pencil, some other times with a pen, and we use colors too.
- That is right! But what do you mean by something?
- I don't know.. A something is a something.. I only know that nothing gives nothing, and nothing will be nothing.. And also something gives something, and something will be something.
- Indeed..
- And that happens all the time..
- I think so.. Do you know what is time?
- I don't know.. But, time is good, and no time is better.
- No time?!
- If there is no time, people won't be old and die.
- But then, there will be no past and no future.. Do you know what the past, the present and the future have to do with each other?
- The past is not the present, and the present is the future.
- You mean the present is not the future, don't you?
- Nope! The present is the future. Today the teacher was very angry at Steve because he didn't do yesterday's homework for today. Now, Steve can't do nothing about that, but he still can do today's homework for tomorrow.
- Was it Steve or it was you?!
- It was Steve I promise!
- I believe you my baby..

"Out of the mouths of babes", said mama and held tight her child.

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