Beyond the honey

“ Beyond the honey"

Once upon a time, in a very very near place, which name was “Jajatoncingo El Fuerte”, which was a very nice place, where you could find houses made with adobe, which is a natural material made from sand, clay, water and some kind of fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw or manure). People who lived there were deeply shy, and most of them liked to listen or to create gossips. (- Remember my dear reader: “small town, big hell” - )

In this town used to live one farmer, whose name was Johny. He was divorced (too many years before this story was written), and of course, a lot of people in the town thought that the divorce was a “devil's thing” (- Mua-jajajaja -) Nevertheless, Johny didn't care about it, because he was very busy most of the time, he was always worried about job and money ( - if you had the oportunity to see him, he would have worked in his own businnes - ). Johny had two daughters, the oldest, whose name was Ofe, liked to be a story-teller; besides the youngest, whose name was Infe, liked to be a story-listener. Despite the fact, the girls grew up with their mom, and Johny was always near to them. During the last year, the girl's mom, suffered a terrible and devastated disease and unfortunately she died. Johny (as a good and lovely father) took care of them and said to his girls that if they wanted, all of them could live together. Both girls, who lived near to him, decided to go with. Since that moment Johny never rested again, he just worked, worked, and worked, every day, even on hollidays. He was a workaholic and super dedicated person to his job and family every day, his farm produced some vegetables, like carrots, spinachs, avocadoes, potatoes, tomatoes, cauliflowers, cucumbers, radish, and more, depends on the climate and his client's orders. He was very good at, and he loved his work, he woke up early and tried to sleep between 8:30 and 9:00 pm, because the next day he always had a lot of work to do, even though he started to feel tired and sick.

One time, Johny decided to expand his own business and started to commercialize his products, therefore he had to visit his new clients all over the country, due to the new plans, he should leave his home frecuently, and his daughters started to feel alone, and depressed. Some day Infe came to her home, with a “kind of present”, it was a very beautiful flower, she didn't know what kind of flower was it. It was a “poppy” flower, and indeed it was a very beautiful and smelled incredible good, fresh and aromatic like no other. Nevertheless Ofe didn't know anything about the flower either, whatsoever the flower was extremely pretty and they decided to keep it. The flower had captivated them so much, that they decided to cultivate just to have more than one. Well, even Musifu, (the cat) didn't play with the flower, he admired and contemplated the flower for hours every day, and Musifu (just for the record) was extremely playful and rascal, he always played with flowers, furniture, food, ... everything, that he found in his way. Meanwhile Johny was closed some deals, particularly with a couple, formed by a man and his wife. They were a very good people, honorable, decent, cheerful, happy, and respectable but a little rare (- that was people used to say -). They were not interested in vegetables because they cultivated everything that they needed, nevertheless when they said “no” to Johny, they felt the need to offered something to him, just because they saw the look of dissapointment in his eyes. They offered to join a meal with them and when they were eating Johny said that he was very tired since long time ago, he felt overwhelmed because of the job and family duties that had been increasing since his ex-wife passed away. The nice couple gave him a honey pot, they were a beekeepers too (not only farmers), and they said: “This is one of a kind, never forget!” In that moment Johny felt like “They are oldies but goodies”.

When Johny returned to his home, he realised that his daughters had cultivated a few poppies, and he was really upset. He entered to the house and with his particularly style and angry-face said to them (like every parents in this world): “What a surprise my darlings! I was working hard, meanwhile you were cultivating a poppy. Do you want to make me crazy?” In this time Ofe and Infe realised the stupid thing they had already done... and tried to explained to his father. (- Of course the father didn't listen, because he was the father, and whatever they said ... that wasn't good enough, simply. “Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental” - ) Johny destroyed every flower before something bad happened to him or his family, fortunately nobody in the town had noticed the flowers because they still looked a little buttons. When Johny was in peace, very relaxed and calmed, he decided to have a friendly chat with his daughters and explained to them, that he never wanted to be angry, because he loved them both so much, however the girls already knew it and explained that the only reason why they did it, was because the first flower they had in this home was so pretty and they didn't know what kind of flower was that. Johny understood and gave to them another kind of flowers, (regular flowers) like roses, daisys, lilys, and more. At the same time, the government announced one marathon in town, for the next July, and the price for the first place was one new Cheyenne truck, thus Ofe and Infe said the news to their father, and of course Johny felt really excited about it and it could be the right moment to do his favorite sport, and won “the Cheyenne truck”, but he had still a problem, he felt really tired.

During the next morning Johny remembered the gift, (the one that the nice couple made to him just a few days ago), so he decided to try, besides it was known that honey was an excelent remedy for everything, a lot of persons would recomend to eat a honey's teaspoon every morning. So Jonhy ate it even though the honey tasted funny.

For the next two months Johny started every day with his excerises routine before that he always ate a half of honey spoon, he started to feel stronger, vigorous, animated, and lively. He never felt lazy or tired even though he had more and more activities and his business couldn't be better, the business started to be more succesful than it was. Well even on Sundays Johny felt the desire to do some more excercise and to do some barbecues with family and friends... was incredible, he was like a super man. On the other hand, Ofe and Infe started to think that maybe his father started to drink, to smoke or to inject some kind of drug, because he never rested, he started to act odd, and different, ... they though that maybe his father didn't want to assume his problem, furthermore it could fit with the poppies' episode. Both siblings started to look every movement of his dad but unsuccesfully. Some day Johny started to realise that he had a lot of energy and his hearth started to pump his blood in a very fast rate. This “sign” stopped Johny's excerise routine, and he decided to visit his doctor. The doctor didn't find anything anormal, and sent him to rest for a few days.

During those days, Johny organized a barbacue with some friends and family. Everyone looked at him and questioned him if he felt OK, because he looked very anxious... So he answerd that he felt like a child, with a lot of energy since he began to eat the “tasty honey”. This time one of the older women who were there and started to laugh and she asked him: “Where did you find that “tasty-honey” my dear?” Johny said: “In Abejotzingo El Alto, a couple of elder people gave to me”.

In this moment everyone in the meeting started to laugh (a peal of laughters), and the older woman talked: “You were so naive my friend, you are an adict”. “Why?” asked him. And the old woman explained him that this “tasty-honey” was made by bees of poppies, in other words in that region poppy grows like grass (everywhere), and the poppies' camps were very near from them, so they went to those camps to make the polinization, therefore the honey wasn't a regular honey, it was one of a kind.

In that moment everything made sense, and every person in town knew that Johny was a little junkie. Of course since that moment, Johny didn't eat again that tasty honey, and everything came back to normal, he didn't win the marathon, but he already had a nice family, and he took his job more easygoing, he understood that there were more important things than jobs or money. Since that time everyone started to call him “Johny the Junkie”, his fame became so big beyond the town, to such an extent that a lot of popular music bands recorded some songs in his honour, but ... this is another story.

My Moral:

When a strange person offers you a present, accept it!

You don't know if it could be a funny honey.