Aurélien Lainé

Jesus Tyler, geeez what a name. Being called Jesus is not a very nice birth present in this contemporary world. Our society nowadays aclaims criticism and other defiances for the sake of entertainment. Jesus is an open door onto criticism, bullying and more hatred. Let’s give it a good look though: those who don’t believe in a religion around Jesus would have their piece of fun and then get bored and go away, those who do believe, would find it a sacrilege and a disgrace.

Jesus Tyler is a carpenter’s son, Tyler’s Carpentry Ltd, in the city. As a good son, he worked with his father for years, he didn’t study much, why should he have? He’d take over his dad’s company, which was successful enough to make a comfortable living. He’d have had a wife and two kids, they’d have graduated university because carpentry is not such a fascinating job: it’s hard, kills your back and the cold in winter is dreadful. Life was on its way for Jesus Tyler.

But life surprises you, always, good or bad one can argue, but in unexpected ways. As Jesus was walking home one day, he saw a man holding a little girl by the hand, she must have been no more than five years old. The man was angry, his face convulsed. Behind them, a woman cried and screamed as to not get her little girl taken away from her. The man put the little girl, crying herself, in the car, jumped on the other side and drove away. The girl was crying for her mum and the mum ran until she couldn’t catch up, crying for her girl. Jesus looked at the scene in shock and as he walked home, he wondered what happened to them and how it got so far. The following weeks he couldn’t quite concentrate on his job or on his own life.

He asked his dad ‘why did you call me Jesus?’, ‘Jesus was the son of a carpenter’ he answered, ‘but you don’t believe in god and neither do I!’, ‘it’s not about what you believe in my son, it’s about what you decide to achieve. Jesus may or may not have existed but look at how many people follow what he may or may not have said. I called you Jesus because it’s a name that carries great achievment, no matter what.’

That same day, Jesus saw a movie called ‘A Man Who Was Superman’, the story of a man who suffered dual personality and he believed that he was superman. His only aim was to help people whenever and however he could. Sure he was a bit strange, but in the end, he helped people. That day Jesus knew that his path resided in his name, not in his hands.

He then decided that his life would be devoted to those who need help. He needed to understand himself and he needed to understand life. Now he drives around the country and stops wherever people might need him. He’s in a rush, always, as there are so many people to help, but his heart is filled with a feeling of achievment. He is happy, more than he’s ever been, because he knows that he does what he was destined for, no doubts, no fear.