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Trips to the moon
Trips to the moon
John was a lawyer, he was a very wealthy and working man. Since he was 22 years old he has worked as an advocate lawyer for criminals, because he believed that everybody deserved a second chance. Ever since he started working, he has had tons of work to do with basically no breaks. As years went by he got married to Janette, an older woman than him. For some years John was happy with his life despite his hard work but as time went by he noticed that he couldn´t find the perfect way to rest from all the work he had to do day by day.
He went with a psychiatrist to get hypnotized but it didn´t work. Then, he went with a doctor to see if he could give him some pills to help him relax, but they just gave him a headache. John was very disappointed since none of the treatments worked at all. So, he decided to take one day off from work, even knowing that work will accumulate by the time he was back from his trip. John decided to go to the NASA by himself, he needed a time for his own. He has always liked space and when he was little he dreamed about being an astronaut. He was so astonished by all the things he saw in there that he decided to buy a spacecraft so he could go to the moon.
Some weeks passed by and his wife died, John became very depressed, and again, his work accumulated in an impressing amount. After all the unfortunate events, he decided to use his spacecraft for the first time. He went to his huge garage where he kept all his cars and he prepared himself with special food. He put on his spatial outfit and he turned on the spacecraft. In three hours he was already landing on the moon. He was very happy being there because it was very relaxing. He was taking a long walk on it, until he decided to sit down to admire the space while he was eating some chips he carried with him. That same day he went back to earth and continued with his work. Every time he got stressed about work he went to the moon and every time he took one of his favorite things and left it on the moon. That was the only place where he could finally relax and forget about all the things he had to do back in earth. He went too often there that he began to build a small house and he started decorating it with all of his favorite things which he had already taken: he made the moon just perfect for himself.
Years passed by, John turned 80 years old and he was still on his same job. He was working even harder that when he was younger. He then realized that he never really had social life. He never made any friends, his wife was his only family, but she died a long time ago, and he didn’t have any work partners since he liked to work alone; he was all by himself. He kept thinking about this for months until he finally decided to go to the moon and stay in there forever. He had everything he needed in the moon and he didn´t needed anymore his work as a lawyer, he was tired and bored of it, his life had no longer sense in Earth, actually it never had. A few hours passed and John was arriving to the moon. He liked the peace and the silence there, in Earth there was never peace and silence. In the moon he could finally rest without thinking about all his criminal cases, there he finally found his life, that one place you can always go when you need to free your mind. He was finally in it and this time he will be staying in there forever.
-Rocío Leal
