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First Men

by Gacina Bozidar


The Space Shuttle was landed. The inhabitants thought about another production of the movie and they thought it would be the realisation of this expected movie and all this music and loud never made them worried and it was Space Shuttle who was real. This engine was there five minutes and departed. In the night someone passed the field and realised the Film makers' Landrovers were not there. The following day it was clear it was strange. Only the second day it was understood it was Space Shuttle. It was not anything related from outer space and it was the rich man's daughter who had this Space Shuttle and it was a helicopter made that for all, it looked like Space Shuttle and indeed it was joke. The new understanding of the joy invaded the people. Now, all wanted to be reach enough to buy the helicopter or a small private jet and to scare anyone using this engine. The boys thought that there were enough the landrovers and the jeeps who are the drivers' cherished engines and that the man simply should be in the air. Someone said it was old idea as the oldest men and the first generations of mankind thought about the birds. What the birds were presenting for the first men on earth? The miracle? They feared. They fed them. They were constructing the little houses for them. It is possible. But did they want to fly and did they know about the future advancement of the mankind? Now this rich man's daughter had the helicopter and this one was shaped as Space Shuttle and for no other purpose then joking. What kind of joking used the first peoples on earth? Really how the first men joked? Were there only the warriors and hunters? And maybe after the vanity of day, being hungry, it was joke about good food they are bringing. It was just laugh? And what kind of laugh they used. The school started to attract the children and many inscriptions were recorded when the schoolboys started to learn about the mankind. All those questions about the first jokes of the men. And how funny it was when many children offered the answers and wrote the stories. One story was about the days of winter and there never have been the electricity nor something to produce the heat by miracle and was it only the fire itself? The villagers were together by the flame and it was warm. The joke was about the water who can stop the flame but the universal natural fire is always existing as the force. In fact they did not understand this. You can stop the flame with amount of water but there is not the total stopping of the fire itself, as the natural, chemical force. You must just know how to deal with the dangerous energy who is there on earth and who was given to people by God and Nature. The joke was in the early stage of humanity just something else. It was the first ever touch of the men with anything. Anything natural in this relationship 'The Men-The Nature' or in this relationship 'The Men-Anything Else in the Nature'. It was joke. The lack of knowledge, the misunderstanding. The fear was the fun. The fun was to be fearful. The school attracted many children. Every parent wanted to have the children and what's more every parent want to have children who will be going to school to meet the friends and teachers. There, they will laugh and they will be learning. They will grow up together. They will learn about the first men and nowadays men. The rich pupils will shape theirs helicopters into Space Shuttles and use them to scare the friends and teachers and maybe to do what is the best dream of schoolboy, to come to the playground with helicopter. This was inspired by the days when they were simply learning boring lessons about the old days of men. Many wanted to know what about the nowadays? And they talked about formula one drivers, the sporting competitions, the ways how to live something exiting. The other school forced the pupils to be serious individuals and the parents helped to teachers, the teachers helped the parents and the children saw many movies and they loved the cinema rather then the school when it was clear that the TV could be so educative to replace the school in the minds of pupils. And clearly the first men never saw and never will see television.

Copyright © 2005 Gacina Bozidar



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