CACTUS

                                                     CACTUS

From the moment he  closed her eyes and went to bed, a deep journey and intrigue begins for her. For this play to initiate, the curtain has to be pulled aside. The eyelid opens like a curtain because Mrs.Catherine  knocks on the door hardly, waking her up. "You've been looking weird since last night," said Mrs. Catherine. She infuriated him by declaring he has no right to reveal his problems to anyone if she has any. "Solve your problems within yourself’’, as if to an enemy, not your own son, he yelled as he yanked her off by the collar. Despite being severely rattled, he did not care and did not feel upset because it was like cold water had sprayed on his face. Their expression demonstrated how optimistic he had begun the day. The fact is that Daniel and his mother were invited to one of Leicester's most renowned restaurants at around 11 p.m. Nobody had the least notion of what had occurred last night. Thanks to his mother, he was awake in the morning, so he sat down at the table with his bleary eyes without even wiping them. He also recalled that his mother had taught him as a child that his burrs were the devil, who he believed brought him bad luck. He engaged in this internal fight for perhaps 10 minutes, yet during that time it seemed as though he had traveled through time a million times. Perhaps he even grabbed a stick and chased the devil? Who knows?

He asked the demon, "Why does this filth bring bad luck?"

‘’It's possible that a person is caught in a version of themselves that they are unable to nurture and grow. Similar to a cactus, this version of oneself may require frequent watering to be alive;however, While you are watering the plant, you are unaware that it will rot. The devil claims that if you don't adapt and feel, you'll just let everything decay and become a mess’’ Devil answers and also adds that so as a warning, I make that slime physical rather than abstract. People always interpret this as a bad omen even though it is actually a warning sign.

Daniel wasn't expecting such an answer because he had already believed it. He bid farewell to the devil with a mustache smile, just then, when his mother waved her hands to make him notice her because Daniel was actually staring at the wall.’’What is going on? You always staring at the things ‘’said Catherine.

‘’ I was talking to the Devil you told me when I was little.You were right,and I have to wash my face.I did not do it this morning and the devil dropped me,that is all’’ said Daniel.

His mother could not remember and thought he is kidding with her.That is why she humiliated her son and said that you should go on having your breakfast.Catherine fully lost her life force and changed into an angry person after she divorced her spouse. Even though her husband preferred pancakes, they had burnt pancakes this morning. Daniel loved his father dearly now that he is an adult, but there was a lot of confusion inside of him. It seemed as though he was stuck in a strange loop between who he wanted to be and who life had made him.He seems the happiest one in the world but he is not.He holds an MA in psychology from the University of Leicester and works as a motivational speaker, but oddly, he is unable to control his thoughts and repressed feelings.He always opressed his thoughts,feelings,emotions,and grief.No one ever held his hands. After his father's death, Daniel became very lonely and devoted himself completely to education, although he had many friends, he was dragged into the crowd, but it was as if he was drawn into a whirlpool. Daniel is also a motivational speaker and gives speeches at universities. Tomorrow he has to give an important speech so he woke up, had breakfast and was on his way. This morning was very different for him. he wasn't driving the car, he was like someone else, controlling the road was like someone else. He managed to grab the stage microphone, greeted everyone and started by saying maybe the real us is not really us.

It is the greatest awareness to know the purpose of self-discovery first, but what if he has not been able to go deep into himself? “Or if he had landed and disappeared,” Daniel questioned. He realized that someone in the audience wanted to speak, the microphone was handed to him and he said, did you discover yourself?

‘I'm still in my own discovery I haven't found myself fully no body can lift me. I'm looking for something but I don't know what and I can be angry and happy at the same time.Also, Sometimes I can be a devil and sometimes a very good angel because I can't stop my desire to help people.’’ Said Daniel. The audience didn't understand that such a speaker was in so much internal conflict. silence closed the conference for a while, and at that moment everyone seemed to question themselves inside. the rest of everything is hidden in the conference hall. After Daniel was greeted with applause, he saw a letter in the right corner of the table in the room and started to read it.The letter says :

‘’My Dear son,my hope, my soul my everything,

I know that you know me as a dead for years,but I did everything for you.Your mom deceived me and she told me cheated on me with another man. how attached he seemed to me from the outside.I had believed she loved me wholeheartly.I was always loyal to her and I would be reborn whenever I looked into her  eyes.You were a child,but the man was more important than you.I wanted to take you and leave the city,but it was not too easy because she said something to me that was reason enough to push me away from you. she shamelessly said that your father is another man I asked for a dna test but they made a deal with the doctor and showed me another DNA test and I believed it. I'm so tired of your mother's intrigues, but later I found out that she has a double personality. she introduced me to you as dead because she knows i love you so much.Maybe you offended me,but your mom lied on me and she decided to tell the truth that you are my son and I reliefed.I followed your steps because I know that you have another land in your inside. My lack has left deep scars on you and I came to be a light for you while you were trapped in the darkness, my son. I realized that with all my pure intent I screwed everything up.I brought your lost puzzle piece to complete you,the letter said’’. At the bottom of the letter, the person who asked you a question at the conference was your father, Joseph.

Daniel's tears wet his red cheeks a little. He hadn't even felt what it was to cry before, he was surprised by this. Is it really my father who wrote this? I should have known that strange things had happened to me when I went to dinner with my mother that day, but my mother used to tell me that I had to keep my feelings inside because you would look weak and people would hurt you. According to her, my feelings, which were a sign of weakness, were trapped inside me, but I learned that my mother was the weakest.What a piety!

That day, my father, whose dream I remember, appeared in front of my eyes, it was like a miracle. I thought I was hallucinating and didn't wake up until breakfast in the morning. Daniel came back to the conference room again, but his gaze had never been more enthusiastic towards the audience before. He called his father with a trembling voice and said:

‘’ I invite my father to the stage, holding my hand just like when I was little, just as I was building the walls I built inside myself, while the pain that I couldn't reflect outside grew inside me and I found myself almost in nothingness.’’

The conference was filled with applause and they  hugged each other tightly and they gave people an important message that day.’’ You can think well for your loved ones and do everything bad, but never lose your feelings or you will never find the lantern that will help you find yourself’’, said his father and father and son were greeted with applause.