CONTEST: "The Keyword of the Week"- Anita and Panic on the sand watch

This was a sand watch that was inside an old house on top of a hill. I must mention that it was not a common sand watch like any other, because its sand does not mediate time, but that emotions mediates. Each granite represented a human feeling like love, joy, sadness, etc., however, this clock also had a compartment at the bottom where the panic accumulated. It was unknown how the object had come to the place where it was. Many speculated by saying that it was witchcraft, others bowed to the side of faith and took it as a gift from the gods. Although the majority in the wise town that the clock had a dark power.

There was a day when a young woman named Anita went up with the hill. He had the heart full of anxiety and concern for the future. Anita had lost her fiance in war, and pain along with sadness consumed her. When he could see the sand watch he felt a strange sensation. He approached this and touched him at the top. The sand began to move in an almost hypnotic way. Anita suddenly began to feel how fear and pain disappear. Suddenly, something changed, the part of the clock where the panic accumulated was very fast. Causing the clock to vibrate and emit an acute sound.

Anita could feel the rapid beats of her heart. Being invaded by the panic I could not move or speak. The little house seemed to close around it, the walls approached and the air was heavy. The sand watch had captured his soul. Desperate to get out of the terrible situation anita try to flee, but the body did not answer. The panic caught it as an effective hunting trap. I do not have another one that closes his eyes and begging to be free. Unexpectedly the clock stopped, as well as the sand that is suspended within the object.

When Anita opens her eyes, I notice that she was back at the base of the hill, healthy and saves, but physically and mentally exhausted. On the other hand, the clock had disappeared. And since that day Anita Vivio without fear. I knew that the panic followed there, somewhere, but she had chosen freedom. Since that day the old house of the hill was empty. However, the history of the Aunt Arena clock from one generation to another. There are those who believe that the clock still exists, others more skeptic think that it is a story that is used to scare children.

I only knew the truth. The panic had not completely disappeared, sometimes at night he could feel it. But I already knew how to face it; towards deep breaths and remembered the flow of the sand. The panic could not catch her if she did not leave. This is how Anita lived her life, facing every challenge without fear and Valentia. The small object had taught him the lesson of his life: fear was not an invisible enemy, it was only a grain of sand in the middle of the desert that was time. And she could choose how to face it.