#review #NG
#wcss #wca
PRESENT:
MARS,2123
"No,Dad I don't want to go without you, I don't want to leave you behind, Please please come with us" I beg my dad to come along but he reply with a cute smile "Look after your mom kiddo and Don't forget how much I love you both" and with the gentle kiss on my forehead, he turns back and the gates close. I can feel my heart hammering in my ears, but I don't want to look some where else and I can't even reply. I am afraid of looking afraid.
"Grandpa, Grandpa" I hear some noise but not sure where it is coming from, "Grandpa Alan, you are sleeping again at this time. It's the story time" Oh! This is my grandsons' voice so I think I was dreaming again. By dreaming and spending the life with that same dream is not less than an agonizing death.
"Not today Neel" I murmured. "No, We waited for the entire story for a very long time, Now you must have to tell" My only grandson Neel who is the life of mine now. The most precious thing in the world isn't gold or diamonds it's the innocence with which a child view the world and specially when their new world is the mars, the red planet.
The memory of my life was with that moment when I lose my father, and everything before it was a blur. I can't even remember the face but only my father's face with wet eyes but with a tiny smile..
Looking back, I think a part of my mother died that day too; I just realize that on the mars.
Earth, 2081:
The last flight is about to leave to mars as a huge asteroid much enormous than the earth is going to strike and will destroy the earth. So there's a jolt as the last stage of our rocket drops away to burn up in the atmosphere. My eyes snaps to the mission clock.
"Twenty minutes and fifteen seconds". And I hold the hands of my father and mother very tight which I don't want to let go. But I discover my father seems looking for something and that something is my younger brother and he is not with us in the rocket.
So he decides to go out to find him but the rocket is about to take off.
Then he just vanish with his last words "Look after your mom kiddo and Don't forget how much I love you both" and gates closes and so my hopes that I would see my father and brother again.
Then I hear the reverse counting that means the rocket is about to blast and leave but my father isn't here by my side nether mine younger brother.
"Three, Two, One.." and I close my eyes at the deafening explosion of the rocket engines. The force of the 100 tonne bomb beneath me jams my spine into the seat as it fights gravity and lifts its mammoth weight into the sky.
At the same time, a blast of adrenaline rips through my nervous system, making my heart pond so hard I can feel my head throbbing. With each breath, I feel the gnawing fear that it may be my last but my teary eyes realizes me that my father and my little brother is not with me.
My stomach twists into a tighter knot despite my pre-launch dose of anti-nausia drugs. I find it hard to breathe, and I know it's from more than just the tremendous gravity forces crushing my chest.The panic no longer lurks in the back of my mind, it's kicking the door down but i felt a touch on my hand and I can feel My mother is also by my side and she gently waved "It's gonna be okay".
And after a long journey of 3 months and 20 days we finally reach the red planet and the volunteers just welcome us check our cylinders if they need to change. But yeah we are alright.
And from now onwards my only home is mars and I have to live my life with this culpability.
#wcss #wca
PRESENT:
MARS,2123
"No,Dad I don't want to go without you, I don't want to leave you behind, Please please come with us" I beg my dad to come along but he reply with a cute smile "Look after your mom kiddo and Don't forget how much I love you both" and with the gentle kiss on my forehead, he turns back and the gates close. I can feel my heart hammering in my ears, but I don't want to look some where else and I can't even reply. I am afraid of looking afraid.
"Grandpa, Grandpa" I hear some noise but not sure where it is coming from, "Grandpa Alan, you are sleeping again at this time. It's the story time" Oh! This is my grandsons' voice so I think I was dreaming again. By dreaming and spending the life with that same dream is not less than an agonizing death.
"Not today Neel" I murmured. "No, We waited for the entire story for a very long time, Now you must have to tell" My only grandson Neel who is the life of mine now. The most precious thing in the world isn't gold or diamonds it's the innocence with which a child view the world and specially when their new world is the mars, the red planet.
The memory of my life was with that moment when I lose my father, and everything before it was a blur. I can't even remember the face but only my father's face with wet eyes but with a tiny smile..
Looking back, I think a part of my mother died that day too; I just realize that on the mars.
Earth, 2081:
The last flight is about to leave to mars as a huge asteroid much enormous than the earth is going to strike and will destroy the earth. So there's a jolt as the last stage of our rocket drops away to burn up in the atmosphere. My eyes snaps to the mission clock.
"Twenty minutes and fifteen seconds". And I hold the hands of my father and mother very tight which I don't want to let go. But I discover my father seems looking for something and that something is my younger brother and he is not with us in the rocket.
So he decides to go out to find him but the rocket is about to take off.
Then he just vanish with his last words "Look after your mom kiddo and Don't forget how much I love you both" and gates closes and so my hopes that I would see my father and brother again.
Then I hear the reverse counting that means the rocket is about to blast and leave but my father isn't here by my side nether mine younger brother.
"Three, Two, One.." and I close my eyes at the deafening explosion of the rocket engines. The force of the 100 tonne bomb beneath me jams my spine into the seat as it fights gravity and lifts its mammoth weight into the sky.
At the same time, a blast of adrenaline rips through my nervous system, making my heart pond so hard I can feel my head throbbing. With each breath, I feel the gnawing fear that it may be my last but my teary eyes realizes me that my father and my little brother is not with me.
My stomach twists into a tighter knot despite my pre-launch dose of anti-nausia drugs. I find it hard to breathe, and I know it's from more than just the tremendous gravity forces crushing my chest.The panic no longer lurks in the back of my mind, it's kicking the door down but i felt a touch on my hand and I can feel My mother is also by my side and she gently waved "It's gonna be okay".
And after a long journey of 3 months and 20 days we finally reach the red planet and the volunteers just welcome us check our cylinders if they need to change. But yeah we are alright.
And from now onwards my only home is mars and I have to live my life with this culpability.