Summary of LA CIUDAD DE LOS POZOS - Un cuento narrado de Jorge Bucay

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This video tells the story of two men who find water at the bottom of their wells. They start to spatter it out, creating a green area in the city. People ask them what will happen when the water runs out, but they believe that as long as they keep drawing water from the bottom of their wells, the water will eventually fill up the second well too.

• 00:00:00 This city had wells that were alive and filled with water. However, the wells differed in terms of their location and the openings that connected them to the outside world. Some wells were rich and ornate with marble and precious metals- while others were simple holes in the ground with metal lids. Some wells were filled with things like coins, jewels, appliances, and art. Others filled with books and ideological tracts. Time passed and the wells started to fill up so much that not even more things could be added. Some pozos decided to grow deeper and become more profound, while others decided to become wider and fill with everything inside them. One well, located far from the center of the city, began to see its friends growing deeper and deeper. It thought that if they kept expanding like this, they would eventually become indistinguishable from each other and each would lose their identity. One day, unexpectedly, the well that was growing deep found water. No other well had ever found water before. The well surpassed the surprise and began to play with the water in the bottom. The walls and edges of the well were spattered with it, and finally it would pull water out and pour it out onto the city. The city had never been watered by rain before, so the
• 00:05:00 The two men began to think about this idea when they realized that in order to go deeper they would have to empty themselves. They followed this idea by expanding even further, filling themselves with more and more things until they reached the other end of the city. Another man decided to also take the risk of going into the water and began to deepen his well as well. He also reached the water and started spattering it out, creating a second green area in the city. People would often ask him what would happen when the water ran out. He would never know for sure, but he believed that as the water continued to be drawn out, the water would eventually fill up the second well too. A few months later, the two men realized that the water they had found at the bottom of their wells was the same water that was flowing in the same underground river. They realized that they had found a new way to communicate with each other, one that was deeper than superficial communication. Only those who are brave enough to empty themselves of content and search for what's deeper within themselves can achieve this kind of communication.