First Life Challenge(toufik guerbouz) The writer who did not live much of experience can live through other people’s experience, that’s my case. But this time I want to tell my story, I want you to live through my experience.
It started the night he was born. It was 16:00 when his mother started feeling the pain of her first child, her first son. 21:23, a little beautiful creature saw his first light after nine dark months, seeing nothing but shapes moving under a bright light, he didn’t move, didn’t make a sound, that’s when the doctors feared a respiratory problem, but he was just trying to understand where the beautiful safe dark world that kept him for 9 months went? And what is going on? 30 seconds no one said a word, no one made a sound, everyone waited for his voice, the boy unable to breathe felt the need for something, he didn’t know what it was, he just knew he needed it, in that moment he knew that the safe darkness that did everything for him was gone, he realized that this new world is full of challenges, he realized that you have to struggle in this world on your own, if you want to survive, he realized that this is his first challenge, willing to succeed, and after 35 seconds only of his birth, he launched this annoying thin scream from the deepest spot of his lungs, what sounded as a crying to normal people, sounded as a relief to the doctors, it sounded the most beautiful music for his mother’s ears, his father was the kind of person that keeps his joy inside himself, he was the kind that smiles with his eyes only, that night he cried, of course he would, he became a father. his grandmother literally entered the neighbor’s house thinking that it was their own. That night was a celebration night.
And the boy was named ADAM.

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