Once upon a time there was a boy who dreamed of a world where all were equal and the impossible doesn´t exist.
When he was very young, he enjoyed the stories his family told him about his people and their customs and although he was very happy with his family in South Africa, he realized that something was going wrong. Shortly after starting school, he began to hear a word he didn’t understand, "Apartheid". And although he asked his teachers and closest adults, he only get fear and silence as an answer. He was very worried and curious about this strange word.
He only saw that people who reached his country were isolating and some of them, despite being children like him, despised him for not having the same skin color and that circumstance hurt a lot. •
Why can’t we be friends? - He asked one of his partners. - When you fall and you get hurt, don’t you cry like me? - He asked a girl after school.
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I don’t know why my parents don’t let me being your friend - the girl replied with a shrug .
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Why? - He insisted.
Before he could receive any reply, she saw her parents and ran for fear of a scolding.
The little boy, sad and alone, sat at the entrance of school, and then he decided that when he grew up, he will fight to make possible what at that time seemed impossible: that all were equal and that children could play together without regardless of the color of their skin, or anything that could separate them. At the end of the day, as her mother said, no one born having learned to hate their differences and what he saw in his family: it was easier to learn to love than to hate.
He grew with this thought and he entered to university, where he founded a group that protested and struggled to change the state of their country. Every day that passed by was worse, but there was no reason to surrender. He kept on fighting to achieve his purpose and that rare word that changed his childhood should become once and for all a bad dream.
Until a bad day he was arrested, he was put in prison and changed his name by a number, 46664.
Twenty-seven years passed in which, despite he was locked up, he continued with the idea of getting his desire, taking advantage of all the free time he had, it was much, studying and preparing to fulfill it the day he was free.
Years later, the president of his country and after hearing about the dream pursued by the prisoner 46664, Frederik de Klerk, granted his freedom when he realized they shared the same purpose. That boy, who dreamed of a better world, had become a man of seventy-one when he got his freedom and regained his name.
After all these years in prison, he felt it was the right time to fulfill his dream and only one year later, with his new friend, they reached their dream. They both had got all humans were equal and they banished the word "Apartheid", that word that changed his life. They wanted everyone not to say that horrible word never again, they wanted freedom for everyone.
Many people heard about what they had achieved after years of struggle. Leaders of all countries in the world reached an agreement. All of them had tried freedom in South Africa and only they got it (Mandela and de Klerk), they were awarded the biggest prize they could get in 1993, "The Nobel Peace Prize": "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa" Both were very happy to receive it and encouraged them to continue working in the correct way, keeping alive the dream come true.
All his country was happy and to thank so much what he had done for them, while still in prison, he was named president of South Africa: the country where he grew, suffered and fulfill his dream. Gladly he accepted this new job and during his time as president he did equality his flag.
Nowadays he is ninety-five years old, and the child who made the impossible possible has the most important job of his life: he has to take care of his people and ensure that his dream will not crumble, his people and his country have forever that equality for what he struggled and finally succeeded. Can you guess what is his name? That little boy that became a symbol of peace in his country, now is an angel named Nelson Mandela. 2016 -CEIP SANTA MARĂ?A MAGDALENA. DIA D (SUDĂ FRICA)