The alien
The alien asked to his upper, complaining, because it was he the elected and no another, and because the Earth was the planet chosen; they answered him that the was he the elected since it was a very optimistic person and wanted to study the pessimism; they added that the Earth was the planet chosen since there was a country in the Earth in which a lot of people spends the day complaining,
X, that had studied the planet Tierra in the school, immediately guessed that country treated and commented:
- “ It treats logically of Spain, zone of the planet Tierra in which all the world spends the day complaining “.
- “ Exactly X” , answered him his upper and added. “We want that you study to Spain, this country of the planet where there are people so pessimist due to the fact that your are very optimistic, and want to check as you resist the pessimism; by the way, to be able to spend unobserved do not concern you by your appearance, already know that the terrícolas are very resembled we “.
His upper added “ And so that the studio that do was more effective go you to ingresar in a hospital in Spain where are ingresados the most pessimist people of the country, or was that you go to spend an intensive year and go to learn a lot of. “
“ But and my studios ? “ It retorted regretting X ( X was studying to be able to take the carnet that allows to drive spatial naves )
They commented him that it studied to distance, and that there would be any problem so that it could do it like this; besides they added with what went him to pay for doing this “ work” would have sufficient money to live very well until it will end up his studios, when it went back home after his period in the Earth.
( What his upper did not count to X is that they were very concerned since they dreaded that his mission in the Earth was too hard and that, after his stay in the hospital with the most pessimist people of a country, X spent to be an optimist to be a maniac depresivo ).
X, as it did not have alternative, accessed and was sent a year to the Earth
To the cape of a year a spatial nave was to look for to X to check as it was. In the nave travelled the best psychologists, doctors, and nurses of the extraterrestrial country, to collect to the that believed serious a possible maniac depresivo, after having spent a year in a hospital with the most pessimist people of a country; but they remained estupefactos when X went in in the spatial nave whistling, smiling, and so calm; even it asked if it could remain a year more in the Earth !!!???
At the beginning the aliens thought that X had gone back crazy, but when they discovered that it was better that never, the aliens asked him as it had achieved to spend so well his stay in a hospital, coexisting with people so negative.
X explained to his upper as it was his stay in the Earth:
Knowing the importance to surround of positive people, the first that did X was to ask to the porter of the psychiatric centre if there was somebody positive among the workers of the hospital, the porter answered him that Manolo the gardener always was of good humour, then decided to do fellow of the gardener and spend the main part of the time with him.
In addition to doing fellow of Manolo, X fed of healthy lunch, marked a schedule and daily discipline to do distinct activities as for example read, or study to take the carnet of driver of spatial naves and, as they left him exit of the psychiatric centre during a while each day, went each day to swim in a swimming pool that there was hover of the centre each day to the same hour. The while that the swam coincided the while that the interns saw the news in the television where counted all type of misfortunes. Like X knew that in the programs of the television by each positive news gave 10 refusals, decided not seeing never the TV.
X, when having a mind very develop, learnt quickly to read in Spanish, and put to read books of positive thought of people that had lived the situations more tremendas, and that explained as they had surpassed it, so that, compared with the histories tremendas that read,
It looked him a prank the to be ingresado, without having to work, and besides charging a wage.
The extraterrestes that listened attentively and astounded the explanation of X asked him that it was what more surprised them of the humans.
X answered that what but surprised him was to discover the masochistic that were the humans since it loved them and gave them morbo fix in which it went badly of his lives, and of the ones of the other, in place to fix that it is what worked in his lives, and in the one of the other. Besides a lot of humans did not value what had until they lost it to be able to then spend the day regretting of this.
The aliens asked him if desveló to some human that the era really an alien
X explained them to his upper that had so much confidence with Manolo the gardener that after several months explain him that it was extraterrestrial,
And how it reacted the gardener when they knew that you were an alien ?
They asked immediately his upper to X
X answered them that the first reaction of Manolo, the gardener, when knowing that the era an alien, was to ask him if it could guess the quiniela of the next Sunday
After an estruendo of guffaws that did not allow them follow asking during some seconds, the upper of X asked him if it had explained to the gardener what had lived in his own experience in his planet.
X assented, and explained, word for word, to his upper the same that had explained to Manolo the gardener, an episode of the history of his own planet that his upper knew very well:
“ Manolo, this question of if I can guess you the quiniela of the next Sunday that do me has a lot that see with the doubts that have, that is to say are not sure to say you to the humans that exist and especially do not know if it would be well transmit you all what know, since thanks to our knowledges could use them to live without working, and surely would turn egoistic , since precisely this is exactly what spent us to us when an upper civilisation to ours discovered “ us “, and teach us advances in the technology that we had cost us a lot of centuries discover by our account “.
“ Manolo “, added X, “ by this motive likes us study civilisations more retarded of ours, as yours, that has not received any help as if we receive we, since we can see as you manage you without any external artificial help as have we and that allowed us learn to live without working and go back us egoistic.
Manolo continuous X, of the same form that to you, and do not offend you for comparing you with the animals of your planet, loves you see documentary on animals in the television, to us loves us see documentary on you that have recorded without that you darse “.
“ Manolo without exiting of his amazement when discovering that I was an alien “, followed explaining X to his upper, asked after me curiosity, “ X, what is what but likes you see in the documentaries on us the humans ? “
I answered him: “ Manolo, likes us see real examples of something that many already know but in spite of knowing it live ignoring it: it likes us check in documentaries that see on you the humans, that from among all you the happiest, and those that more laugh , are used to to be the people that has more fellow and but time spends with them and with his families, the people that is not egoistic and that encourages for improving in his work. This remembers us that the technological advance to us so alone served us to be more egoistic and to leave to relate us, something that already is beginning to spend with you, especially in the zones but “ advanced “ of the Earth where for example all the world has internet and is leaving to know personally “.
“ Manolo “, continuous X, “to us surprises us a lot check that you do not value and enjoy of the beautiful that it is your planet, of the luck that have to be able to stroll and see the nature. In our planet all is done of a product very resembled what you call plastic, since it does long that we upload us all the trees and all that it was green, and dread me that you, in your planet, go in the same direction “.
X after the explanation that gave to his upper, and when seeing that it could not remain a year but in the Earth, went back to the psychiatric to leave a note saying that “ it escaped ”, afterwards sacked emotivamente of Manolo going in by the rear door of his house, so that anybody saw it, and went back to the spatial nave with his congéneres to disappear some seconds afterwards for ever in the space.
