DO YOU SAY " I LOVE YOU " ?
Two brothers were playing soccer outside the house,
when Julio, the youngest, said to his brother Ricardo:
- My dear brother, I love you and I never want to be apart from you!
Ricardo, without paying too much attention to what Julio said, asked:
- What in hell is wrong with you? What's up with this stupid conversation about love? Just shut up and continue playing the game.
So they kept playing until the darkness of the night arrived.
Late at night Jaco, the kids' father, got home from work.
He was exhausted and in a bad mood, because he failed on a big project at work.
When Jaco got in the house, gazed at Julio for a second, getting a big and bright smile in return.
Julio said:
- Hi daddy, I love you so much and I never want to be apart from you!
Jaco, full of rage and very stressed out, said to his son:
- Julio, I am very nervous and tired right now, so please, don't give me this love bullsh*t conversation at this time!
Julio went quietly to his room to cry on his pillow.
The mother, Joana, missing the son's presence at the dinner table, went looking for him until she found him in tears holding his pillow tight to his chest.
She got worried and asked:
- What happened Julio? Why are you crying?
Julio's eyes turned to his mom's, with a sad expression stamped in them. He said:
- Mom, I love you so much and I never want to be apart from you?
Joana smiled and replied:
- My dear son, we will always be together no matter what.
Julio gave mom a big kiss, smiled and went to bed:
When Joana and Jaco were getting ready to go to sleep, she asked the husband:
- Julio is acting very strange today, don't you think?
Jaco, still stressed out about his job, replied to her:
- This kid is just being stupid, that is all. Now go to sleep because I have to be up early.
So everybody went to sleep. At two in the morning, Julio gets up and go to his brother's room, stands in front of Ricardo's bed watching him sleep.
Ricardo wakes up due to the lights, and yell at his brother:
- Crazy kid!!! Shut the lights and let me sleep!!
Julio, in silence, obeyed his brother's wish, shut the lights and went straight to his parents room.
When he got there, he watched them sleep until his dad woke up.
- What's wrong son?
Julio, silent, just shook his head like nothing was wrong.
- So, what is going on then?
Julio still would not say a word. Jaco yelled:
- You are sick, go to sleep now!!!
Julio turned the lights off, walked to his room and went to bed.
Next morning everybody got up early. Jaco was getting ready for work, Joana was getting ready to take the kids to school, Ricardo and Julio....
but Julio never got up!
Jaco that was mad at Julio from the night before, went to his son's room, open the door and started screaming from the top of his lungs:
- Wake up you lazy bastard!!!! Get up now!!!
Julio didn't move.
Jaco noticed his son still had his eyes shut and was pale white.
Scared, he put his hand on Julio's face. It was really cold.
Desperate, he called Joana and Ricardo to the room to see what has happened.... unfortunately the worse.
Julio was dead and without any apparent reasons.
Joana put her son in her arms hugging him tight, could hardly breath because she was crying so hard.
Ricardo held tight his brother's hand and only had the strenght to cry.
Jaco, his eyes full of tears, noticed a tiny paper folded in between Julio's little fingers.
He took the paper and noticed there was something written with Julio's hand writing.
It said:
- The other night God spoke to me through a dream. Told me that, even though I love my family and my family loves me, we would have to separate. I really didn't want this but God explain to me it was necessary. I don't know what's going to happen to me but i am very scared.
- I just want to keep somethings clear if anything happens:
+ Ricardo, don't feel embarrassed to say you love your brother.
+ Mom, you are the best mom in the entire universe.
+ Dad, you work so much that you forgot to live.
- I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
How often we don't have the time to stop to love, or receive the love given to us?
Maybe when we wake up it will be too late... think about it.
