Sunday, 13 November 2011

You’ve just written a 300-page autobiography. Send us page 217. (University of Pennsylvania)


-         …. The seasons changed and it had already become November. During morning walks on the beach, it seemed rather cold, dull and darker than usual. It made me think of those classic Harry Potter movies when I was young. The tides would try to push up shore; the old layer of sand would be replaced by new ones. The young people these days made me think of the good old days. Before I got my masters degree in Global Economics, before my industrial reign. I had the time of my life. There had been good times and bad times, but overall, that’s how life is.
-         I would tell my grand children about life. “What is life without happiness”, alright I got that quote from John Lennon, but they don’t have to know that. They’re not even interested in the classics. Now-a-days it’s all about the technology. The Iphone-11 had been complicated to use as I lost interest in all these high tech equipment since the 50s. I do still enjoy the pleasure of watching the classic cartoons and the good old Playstation-3 and the Xbox. To me, nothing beats that.
-         My wife would yell at me during my gaming times. My grand children would get annoyed as I hogged up the holographic gaming projector. My wife would tell me that we hadn’t spent much time together anymore, but then we had spent the rest of our lives together since our wedding in the 20s. I still couldn’t forget the day I had proposed to my beloved wife. As annoying as she was, I still loved her. Her father hated me, even to this day; I can imagine him cursing me from above. The day my wife’s father I was going to propose, he freaked out and gave me the longest lecture in my life, even longer than those in my office. He told me about the terror and havoc he’d cause if I’d break her heart. Then that same day, we had dinner in a small restaurant near the beach, on ………   

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