At twilight of the day, he found himself watching the pigeons in the small square where he occasionally sat watching the landscape. This being with gentle qualities and full of humility, with dark eyes with which he looked penetratingly at those who dared to see his face. He was absorbed in his thoughts, touching his grayish beard with the thick fingers of his hand and sighing every time a thought reminded him of youthful times.

Many of the passersby stared with curiosity, the way in which this elderly individual radiated a kind of joy that had no logical explanation for those who felt the only desire to turn their gaze to the person who was sitting. As if by irrefutable attraction, the eyes were directed towards the silhouette of peace and tranquility that the man showed reclining in one of the seats. At times, he showed a smile like someone who smiles at a friend ...

One day, while he was in the same place as always, his customary internal conversation is interrupted by the words of someone who came to sit on the same bench where he used to. The newcomer did so by shouting unpleasant words that he transmitted to the person on the other side of the phone and by his tone of voice, he was obviously annoyed ...

What's wrong? Have you gone crazy or was it that they sent you to bother my patience? I told you they owe me the money and I don't have it on hand. I'm waiting around here to charge that guy, I'm tired of his lies and if he doesn't pay me, I'm going to hit him wherever I see him. Leave me alone, I can't take those claims of yours anymore ...

Forgive your debts as we also forgive those who owe us ... A soft, authoritative voice rang out, echoing the ear of the young man who just arrived. Those words that came from the old man, attracted his attention powerfully and despite feeling a need to tell him to shut up, he preferred to keep silence and meditate on those words, well; I knew those phrases from somewhere but didn't remember where ...

So a couple of minutes passed and the young man's internal dialogue about the reasons why this old man had said such words to him, where he had read or heard them; it was broken by other words of the old man: written is ...

The man's thoughts were also submerged; In the conflict with his partner and due to such a situation, he felt great anger in his heart and he only wanted to vent such an amount of discomfort by shouting rudeness and slander as usual ... However, the old man's last words; they made his body exert a strange shape; since he felt a kind of shock run from his head that immediately made his body bristle ...

With great anger but with some fear, he asks the old man: what do you mean by these words? It's who they owe me to and if I don't get paid, they don't pay me. I'm not anyone's fool for them to come and rob me like nothing ... So, wherever I see that guy, I'm going to fall for whatever he has for being irresponsible, bad pay and so that he doesn't live with someone else ... So don't tell me to forgive anyone, because no one forgives me ...

Well, I am not the one to say what you should do ... But try to reduce aggressiveness, you are talking to a stranger and what you are talking about makes me create a perspective that perhaps is not the one you really manifest in your life ... Let's see, I will try to explain to you if you allow me ...

Yes, I am waiting for your answer (he says with great anxiety) ...

I'll start by asking a question. Do you think that hitting the person who owes you will pay you back or will the problem be solved?

Almost immediately, as if it were an explosion of words, the answer was: I am not interested in what happens to him, I just want him not to see my stupid face and that is why I am going to fall where I see him ...

Uffff ... So, your aggressiveness has not decreased towards this old man who only seeks to help ... I will answer the previous question: I think that you will only generate greater problems if you hit him ... This is something of logic, who owes you is likely not have the money to pay and if you hit him, now that person will have to solve another problem, his health ... And taking into account that you will be the aggressor, I am sure that you will get into a legal problem for which you must respond … From what I understand, you will be without money back and with a legal matter to resolve…

The young man was meditating on the old man's words ... He crossed thoughts about being in prison, at his age of 25, he would surely leave very old age and his wife and daughter would be left helpless ... It was really not worth his Life will change in that sense, because he remembered that he was also in charge of activities with respect to his favorite sport ... It only remained to say: you are right, it is not worth it ... Now with a calmer tone of voice ...

Exactly boy, it's not worth it ... For me, life is much more than a fight or a debt ... Even when they believe us to see the faces of fools, the greatest of all teachers, said that forgive the debts ... What's more, he also said: if they still come to remove the tunic, give up the cape ... With this, he has only given to understand that material things are of little value compared to other things ... For this reason, giving everything regardless of anything is a gesture of someone looking for something more in life ...

Well, but I need what they owe, how do I get my money?

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