Monsters of childhood

This topic scares me because since I was a little girl I knew that for the rest of my life I would be a chicken. A lot of things scare me, like darkness, figures of the virgin (saints, Jesus or whatever) on churches, horror movies, et cetera …We don´t have time for a top ten of my fears and monsters of childhood, so I’m going to choose one.

Do you know Marcelo Rios? Marcelo “Chino” Ríos was a professional tennis player; he was ATP number one in 1998. I was 2 years old do I can’t remember, but why him? Well, because of his triumph so many people started selling merchandise with his face, was a boom of mask of “Chino” Ríos and my cousins had one.

When in home we talk about that mask they laugh of me because I was afraid to see it and I always yell “leave me alone, get out, please, mom!” Some years ago I understood that was only a mask and yeah, was an ugly one, but for my little I, the mask was a horrible monster that made me a bit paranoid.