The Blue Grotto

"The happiness, true happiness,
it's a condition less angelic and much less enjoyable
about what people, we use to dream.
Generally people are just feeling unfortunate,
just to had believed that happiness
was a permanent feeling of endless well-being ,
of joyful ecstasy, of perpetual festival.

No, the happiness it's much less
(or maybe much more, but anyway, other thing)
and it's sure that many of those alleged unfortunate,
are truly happy, but they don't realize, not admit it,
because they think to be so far away
to the maximun well-being..

It's similar about what happened with the dissapointed
of the Blue Grotto.
What they imagined, was a fairy grotto,
they didn't know well how it was,
just that it was a fairy grotto, in return,
they got there and find that all the miracle
it's to put the hands into the water
and look at them as blue and bright.."

- Mario Benedetti, La Tregua