It's okay the desire something, but when you make it your entire life, it turns to obssession. Obssession leads to greed, which is the most powerful of negative human emotions. Panchito learns this when he gets the chance to go to school. He loves it so much, that he excludes everything else going on in his life. He's in this dream-come-true fantasy world. When he returns home, from school, to find all the boxes, he is decimated. His heart, shattered. His fantasy world, destroyed.
In life, you need to be aware about things happening on the inside and the outside of your life. The more aware you are, the better chance you can take in the good things, and avoid the harmful things. Basically, planning for your future by using your past. One needs these skills to survive in reality and society. Without them, you are wasting your life. A life without purpose is a life not worth living.
You can have your own little world to retreat to every once in a while when things go wrong. Nobody's perfect. Something bad happens to everyone eventually. While most retreat to it occasionally, others resort to it too often. In some cases, it lands them in an asylum. Their choice on the road of life or their childhood was poor. At first, Panchito was a lowly crop-picker. He was raised with little imagination. It was work, how to survive, and how to make money. He was told to hide when the school bus came around. Then he moves to a new town. He goes to school and loves it, especially when he gets the opportunity to play the trumpet. His imagination starts to grow from the small seed it was. His fatal flaw was that he was so caught up with his life at school, that he doesn't notice signs in his life at home that his family is required to move yet again. Imagination was new to him, and that made him misuse it and it misguided him. He lost sight of the real world and when he returned to it, he was lost, confused, frightened, and dissapointed. Life is a tragedy, and now Panchito knows.
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