MAKE IT WORK

Valle walked mindlessly past the colorful amusement park, watching families laugh and play together. He stopped for a moment to look at a family—a mother and father happily pushing their giggling kids on swings. The fun atmosphere made him feel something deep inside, a feeling he didn’t recognize from his own childhood.

He felt a strong longing in his heart. It seemed like a world he couldn’t understand, a world that was always out of his reach.

As he watched mothers pushing swings, fathers lifting their kids into the air, and the sound of laughter nearby, he remembered his own childhood.

A wave of sadness hit Valle—he had never known the simple happiness he saw in front of him. His father, obsessed with power, only showed him the harsh side of life. Love and warmth were not part of his father’s world. His mother, too, was a victim of his father’s cruelty, too scared to give him comfort.

Valle felt helpless as he realized he was stuck knowing only darkness and pain. The thought that