Before to start, I need to admit that I made this article because of personal reasons. It is out of curiosity. Maybe I'm fascinated on how other writers can sleep for a century years, or a millennium, and travel towards the future to witness the enchantment of tomorrow.
In the first place, I'm one of those people who criticize the problem of the society in particular with the issues concerning influx of machineries, poverty, shortage, war, and the corruption. I believe that time will come when all things will back to basic and will results to a peaceful living.
On the other hand, what I plan to do is to sleep for a century years and wake up to witness the mystery features of the future. So I prepare the following in order to achieve my plans.
I bought all books, magazines, and comics that I saw even those intended for kids. Then bring it all to my room together with five boxes of pizza and a dozen of donuts. I am eating the foods while reading until such time that I felt sleepy. Although you can call this as suicidal thing, yet I’m proud to tell that I did it.
After a while, I felt slowly weakening of my body and begin to sleep. I close my eyes and relax my body. I need to have a deeply sleep for a long time in order to travel the future. Now I’m sleeping without knowing what is happening in the real world.
As I am expecting, I woke up in a different world. I really don’t know where I am. I found myself seating in the sofa inside a dark room. It is like a museum that contains many related pictures. Meanwhile, I saw a man standing in front of me. He has no hair and wearing a grey shirt. He is staring at me while standing. I ask him the name of the place and the time. But he deeply breathes and show little dismay. "Is this the year 4015?" he suddenly close his eyes and tell that he doesn’t know what I’m saying. He doesn’t know how to explain everything and admit that he used to hear the things I asked way back years before.
"Don’t you know how to use the calendar? Aren’t you counting the years?" I start to get mad while asking him. "May be a long time ago" he answered. "I still remember that it was a millennium passed when I used to saw people using calendars but all of them died."
"My God!?" I shout with full of disappointments. "What did you say?" he asked "my God?" as I repeat "Ah" he reveals that it is his first time to hear the word “God”. After long years of staying in the museum he already saw the succession of every generation passed time to time. He witness how people sacrifice life and the changing of time over the years.
"Wait!!! I can’t digest all the things you are saying. Can you please explain one by one?" I requested. "Hmmm! as a matter of fact, I already saw you sleeping in this sofa for more than a decade. I thought you are dead, but I noticed that you are only sleeping and after 14 years you woke up without any knowledge about the present time. If you really want to understand where you are now, let me answer your question one by one."
The first thing that comes out in my mind is the shirt.
"What kind of shirt are you wearing?"
"It is made of enhanced alloy named Pugna" he answered. "It can last for a hundred of years or longer. All of the citizens here are wearing grey shirt. In fact you are also wearing it"
I didn't notice that I am also wearing a grey shirt. "Answer me, where are we now?" “We are inside the museum, all you can see here are specimens like you," he said. "Common, if you want to know further about this place lets go outside and talks for a while."
We leave outside the hall. While walking towards the door, I was too mesmerized with the pictures and statues displayed inside. After a while as we approach the street, I got shocked of what I saw.
"Rosario!? Is it possible? Is this the municipality of Rosario? I can't imagine how it looks like. I don’t want to believe that this is our town. I don’t know what are the changes happened here after a century years. The place was surrounded with old tall buildings. It was bombarded with damaged infrastructure. The roads are blocked with dead fishes which produces unpleasant smell. There are no cars producing sounds and free of noise. There are no electric wirings. You can’t see moving object other than those people without hair and wearing grey shirt. Oh God!!! Is this the promise land you want to live us? I don’t know why people need to suffer this world. It was already destroyed by different civilizations. I think this is the result of the influx of technology and the so much abuse of the people generation to generation."
We suddenly sit beside a small chapel. "Excellent. Isn’t it?" he said. "This is much better than the past". He is confidently saying the things as he compares the new face of the municipality in the past; he believes that it turns to be better than a decade before which has been damage by different military wars.
"Where are the cars?"
"We have no cars at all, we don’t need it. It’s only a source of noise!"
"How can you go from place to place?"
"We also don’t need to travel" he answered. “Why is it for? For us staying is an act of travelling," he said then close his eyes.
Thousands of questions were formed in my mind. "Do you have work?" I asked "work!? All of these are gone. We used to have work way back century before."
I was curious of what happened before, so I ask him to explain clearly the reason of not having work. "All of those are vanished. It was killed by itself. It was over power by machines. Don’t you have machines before? People start to fight against machines when the influx of technology controls the habitual living of many individuals. It looks like machineries invasion that gives better output than the one produce by other workers. Not only have the people suffered but it also the nature. It is the outcome of the pollutions made by the machine and technological equipment. But people fight against the machine domination. They won the battle. They learn how to manually fix things which gives an avenue for the development of their learning. They learn how to make foods out of chemicals. Before many individuals suffer from starvation and needs to find a job in order to provide their daily needs and expenses. Yet now, you don’t need to exert so much energy. You only need to drink a capsule once a year and no need to take foods."
I was too amazed with what I heard "We fight against time, we surpass generation to generation and kill the sources of everything. This is the basic world"
"What is the big problem that may occur in this time?" I asked. "The problem is the eternity. We are all immortals. We will live forever"
"You are saying that you will live forever?"
"Yes! It is a punishment for taking mortal sin way back before"
On the other hand, I ask the state of education they have, and what kind of institution exist. "We don’t have institutions at all. We learn things by simply looking the object. If we want to seek the information, we simply look for it and the data will come out"
"How about the people living here, what kind of individuals you are? Where you came from?"
"We have no age nor gender. What we knew is we are living. We don’t have peers, parents nor god. We are free to do everything. No limitations and no restrictions."
Afterwards I run fast. I don’t know if I’m going to believe all he said. I got afraid of what will happen in the future. I really run faster and shout out loud. I want to escape this.
"My god!!!" is this you call the future civilization? A millennium? A waste world? You already destroyed the world full of smiles and hopes. I really want to go back. Please help me god." My tears are falling because of detestation I experienced in witnessing the other world. Full of emotions I start to hysterical
"I already saw its feature and now I knew my purpose"
Meanwhile I heard a very loud voice shouting that waking up my soul. Suddenly I woke up hearing the voice of my brother saying. "Wake up wake up you are late prepare yourself and go to school"