The Blue Balloon Ron was watching his beautiful blue balloon tied to his right arm. Like all the four year old kids, he was absorbed in the thoughts of a child. We don’t know what he was fantasising about but we can imagine he wanted to be an astronaut surfing through space, a fireman who is helping a little cat stuck up a tree or a football player scoring a goal during the final of the world championships. Only kids are able to have such realistic daydreams. Not too far away his father was watching him, softly envying his sinless carefreeness, proud to see his son watching his blue balloon and ready to became a man, a good one he swore. Suddenly the thin string came loose from his arm allowing the balloon to fly free into the sky. Ron began to cry loudly. “Don’t cry Ron” his father said ” let your dreams fly away, free”. Ron didn’t stop crying but father and son remained together, watching the blue balloon flying into the future.