by Jordi Morella
Once upon a time there was a girl who lived with her parents. Like every morning, they woke her up to get up and go to school. That day, like others, the girl, after looking in the mirror, told her mother:
Mam, today I want you to make me braids!
After washing his face, his mom took two hair bands and made the braids that her daughter had told her. He left his home in the direction of the school accompanied by his father who worked near the center.
The girl spent all day at school because she also stayed to eat. In the afternoon, when he was already at home and having grown dark, after dinner he went to brush his teeth and realized that he was missing a braid, when in the morning he was two.
- Mam ! There was a voice screaming from the sink.
- Pap !, Come, run, come! He was heard again.
When her parents arrived they found her daughter looking for her braid through the hall in the direction of her room.
A na, what's wrong with you daughter? His mother asked as they saw her looking for something.
I have lost a braid and cannot find it.
Her parents helped her find her, but nothing. Then they took the child and the three went to the dining room.
Let's see, how can you lose a braid and not realize, daughter? - his father told him.
- I do not know. I was wearing it this morning and now I don't have it anymore.
- You mean you haven't discarded it? - insisted the mother.
- No, mom! I have not touched my hair.
- Let's see, when did you find her missing for the first time? - asked his father.
- Now, when I have gone to brush my teeth.
- And not before? Throughout the day you have not found it missing?
- No - the girl replied.
- Have you had gymnastics today? - asked his mother.
- Yes, this morning - he replied
- When you finished gymnastics, did you still have both braids? - the father intervened.
- Yes, I still had them because I had a hair on my face and I threw it back.
- What have you done after gymnastics? - the father continued asking.
- We have returned to class.
- And then?
- We have done some relaxation before going out to the patio and waiting for the turn to eat.
After analyzing all day they concluded that when she went to eat she was only wearing one because some of her classmates looked at her a little differently.
- What have you done in relaxation? - asked the mother.
- An exercise that we were traveling to a country where the key to happiness was found and that to get us asked for something of ours and that if we did not know what the key to happiness was when we left, they would not return what we had left to the entrance, and they would not return it to us until we knew what this "thing" is that makes us happy.
- Go, and from what I see, you have not guessed - said his mother interrupting her.
- No. I left one of my braids and the entrance guard put it in a box lined inside a lilac-colored clothes. Between and…. Everything was so beautiful! The people were happy and made a lot of joke between them. I asked one what was the key to happiness and he told me to feel in my heart that he would tell me. I asked another and he said that what I was looking for was inside me, pointing at my chest. I saw that everyone was happy and as if they knew each other.
- Did you listen to your heart? - asked his father.
- No.
- And why didn't you hear it? - continued.
- Because I wanted to be told so that I could be the first to get out of there.
- What were you not feeling well in that country? - interrupted the mother.
- Oh yes, very good! Everything was fun and I had a good time being with them.
- You played? - asked his father.
- Yes! They let you play with them and they didn't mind losing because everything and they had a great time. They played to have fun, not to win.
- What happened at the end when I wanted to leave? - asked his mother.
- Well, when I wanted to go out and meet the guardian at the entrance, he asked me what the key to happiness was and I said: have fun and laugh.
Then he told me:
- No! I still can't give it to you until you find the key that will make you happy.
In this way I left that country returning from the trip with a braid less.
When I woke up from relaxation I felt strange because it was as if I was missing something, as if I were to know something important. While still thinking about what I had experienced in the relaxation exercise, I felt a deep voice that said:
- Go, and now go slowly without much noise. Those who stay to eat go to the small patio, as always, huh?
She was the teacher we had finished and we could go out to the patio.
Then the father asked him:
- So, Aïna, you still don't know what the key to happiness is?
- I thought it was having fun and laughing.
- You know you won't have two braids again until you find the answer - said the father.
- Mom will make me another one - he said.
- No! I think it will be of no use - said his mother.
- Why? - the girl asked.
- Because it seems to me that every time I put the rubber on you, the braid would disappear - her mother answered sure.
- Not! You will see! Test it! - said the girl.
The mother took part of her hair, stretched it, made a braid, and put a rubber zás!, as if by magic, the braid disappeared.
- Do you see it, daughter? You will only be able to have the other braid again when you find the key to happiness.
- Do you know it? - the girl asked.
The mother nodded.
- And you, dad, do you know that too?
- Yes - he replied.
- Then tell me and so I will know and I can recover the braid.
- Beloved daughter, what do you feel good about us? - asked the father.
- Yes - he replied flatly.
- Why? - the father continued asking.
- Because you love me - Aïna replied.
- We too, daughter. You are a gift from heaven to us.
Then the father approached her and kissed him. His mother made him a smile and also kissed him to go to sleep, while saying:
- Come on, now you go to sleep.
- But you didn't answer me!
- Now, when you put yourself in bed, keep in mind what we have told you and watch your dreams tonight, maybe tomorrow you will have a surprise - the mother continued.
- Will I know tomorrow?
- It is probable - said the father.
Aïna went to her room thinking about what her parents had said and when she was already in her bed she felt very loved by them.
That night he had a dream that told him what the key to happiness was.
When he got up and went to the sink, he realized that he had both braids again. He had found the answer.
And you, you know what is the key to happiness?
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