Skip to main content

Pains of Birth

ultrasound image of a foetus
He screams. He cries. He tries to see through but sees nothing. 
A cold sensation spreads over his skin. Chilling matter goes through his wide open mouth and stings his lungs before he exhales again another scream. 
Giant creatures standing there scare him. They are unproportionally bigger than anything that could fit in the world he was living in till very recently. His world was comfortably dark, cozy and warm. Constantly fed through the cord tied to his belly, he didn't even have to worry about chewing anything but his thumb. 
He cries as the will to go back to his comfort zone, fails him. 
Those giants were holding him and anyway, he couldn't move in this totally new, unknown world. 
New rules apply. He has no idea what's ahead, and he doesn't know whether he should trust, or not, the new nature, the new present, the new valiants tutors. 
So he screams. 
He kicks. 
He waves his fists around in all directions. 
Little did he know that nothing is up to his will, or almost so. 
Lights forbid him from seeing, and his eyes are not yet taught to see the images, let alone to understand them. 
He cries. 
He's cold. Lonely. He knows not what is the time or the place. He knows not what is "future". Past was everything. 
He screams. 
His scream fills the room -bigger than his biggest world but smaller than his smallest dream. 
The world moves and now revolves only around him, he who knows nothing about this. His biggest adventure is about to start, the way to another long journey is being paved as he cries. Everyone around but him knows that amid those screams and cries, a new life has just started. A magical event close to miracles, marks the jump he's making to the unknown. 
That's the miracle of Birth, of the New Life.

Author: Mohamed Ansaihi
Personal website and portfolio: https://www.ansaihi.com
You will LOVE these sites: Featured Pages
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Brief me, pleaaaaase!

"I need a break brief" "Brief" is becoming a word to kill for nowadays. I just have to say " give me a brief " to trigger a raffle of weird looks from my interlocutor, and sometimes it goes like " but we're discussing now! "... well, I can let go and get an affirmation that our discussion IS the brief. But truth doesn't take time to show up: " why don't we do a promotion or offer something? ", or " can we say some other message? ", or some other person comes and tell the team they were wrong in their approach, and that a brief would be re-written...! I would have loved to be the cool dude who helps you leave on time, but it's not up to me.. when it starts becoming a habit, and the cool dude is not that cool if one day he calls halt to the bad habit, then you should know it's for the sake of the client, the agency, the artists, the creatives, and the industry centennial learnings. Some might d...
4 comments
Read more

I Want to Eat!

Act 1 He walks in a fine-diner... an usher rushes to greet him and managed to get him a very good table. He doesn't make him wait long before he brought him a few handouts, covering the restaurant's long heritage and how it's digging its roots deep in history to the last century. He takes care of thanking him of finding this cozy place that actually belongs to a well-known chain of restaurants offering all sorts of international food with local touch in each location. " We know customers come to us with high expectations, and I am positive you won't be disappointed, Sir! " The customer is very happy and overwhelmed with how the whole floor is at his service, and he fought the idea that is silently popping in his mind " they would add a hefty service charge on the bill! ". While he is absorbed in that thought, the usher calls the floor manager, who invites the guest to another table, even better than the first one. " You are ou...
Post a Comment
Read more

"Out of sight"

I've just watched the best 5-minute anim and it made my day, a Japanese one about a blind little girl who lost her dog guide for a while. It inspired me one thought: "we become creative only after closing our eyes to the outer noise and focus on our internal voice. Only then we can isolate a different perspective of the world, not like everybody else sees it, not like we are told to see it, but how we imagin it. How would things look if we see them through only our creative mind? Anything could happen then, and that's the impossible and magic world of creativity. Then only, "Resist the usual" or "be different" or "think different", will make sense. I would say that it's good to plan our plan according to real data, in a real world and to fit perfectly in the tangible and conventional world, but we should incept this plan creatively, in a borderless world of no limits. How many times you were faced with an "a...
Post a Comment
Read more