284,700… 446,760… 87,600…
300… 24:32:29… hours, minutes, second, times keeps ticking as everyone walks by
in this city. The times won’t stop, it won’t wait for anyone else and it won’t
come back no matter what happened. So, everyone lives their life to the
fullest, trying to utilize the times as much as they can to find their own
happiness. Some people say that live happily will make this short life better.
Life is short, it’s very close to the end and what awaits us at the end of
life? Of course, it’s death. Life’s deadline is decided since the day a human
born, every human has a lifespan. When a human’s lifespan comes to the end,
death will surely come. Nobody can do anything about it, because the death is
inevitable no matter how hard a human tried. Nobody wants to know when they
will die, in fact there shouldn’t be a way of knowing when the death will come,
but my eyes just happened to able to see it.
I can see someone’s lifespan, I can
see every single person’s time clearly above their head, my eyes show me how
much hours left they have to live. The thing became more clear when someone
reaches their final 100 hours, I can see more detailed information like their
minutes and second. I ask myself every single day, why do I have this power?
What can I do with this power? Do I have to save someone from the inevitable
death? Is that even possible? I can’t stop thinking about it since the day I have
this power. Honestly, I don’t really remember the first day I can see the
thing, but it doesn’t matter. The more important thing is how should I use this
power? It’s not funny if I come to someone with a short lifespan and say “hi
sir, you know what? You’re going to die soon”, I will get slapped in a second.
Perhaps the only thing I can do with this power is saving someone, and of
course I have tried it several times, but…
Three years ago, I saw an old man
with a short time left walking on the street. He only has 15 minutes to live. I
have to save him, I have to do something, and perhaps this is the right time to
test my power. I followed this old man through the street and wondering where
he will go, but I have no idea what kind of nightmare I will face. Death sure
sounds really scary and I never saw someone’s death in front of my eyes,
perhaps this will be my first experience? I decided to think about that later.
I keep following this guy for about
10 minutes, and he doesn’t seem will reach his destination soon. Times are
ticking and I only have one minute to save him before the death come. What will
happen? Is he going to die because of his illness or he is going to involved in
some accident? I can’t stop worrying about this. 40 seconds left, what should I
do? I keep following him behind before something bad happens I chose to stay
close behind him. He crosses the road right now and the thing that I
anticipated is really happening. A big truck lost its control and it’s going to
hit this man, with all of my power I jumped to save the old man. The big truck
hit a building and stopped right there. It can’t be, I did it! Or so that’s
what I thought. I look at the old man to make sure he was safe, he still alive,
but his lifespan doesn’t change at all. I was hoped it will expand or
something, but the reality is the times keep ticking. There’s only 10 seconds
left, I can’t think clearly and I don’t know what to do next. What is going to
happen?
“Thanks kid, you saved me” the old man
said that with a relief face.
The clock is still ticking, 5…4…
think, think, think 3… 2… 1… CRASH!!! A store sign fell and crush that old man
in front of my eyes. What’s going on here? Did I just failed? Reality hit me so
hard in the face, Perhaps death is inevitable is true.
I failed to save the old man, but it
doesn’t mean I give up on myself. There must be something I can do with this
power, one failed attempt won’t stop me. I’m just wandering around in a crowded
place when I have spare time and expecting to find someone with short times
left. Of course, I won’t find it every day and I don’t want it to happen
though, but just in case I kept patrolling every day. I hope I can do something
with this power, but in fact, I can’t do that. No matter how hard I tried,
people will always die. It doesn’t matter if I save them once, twice, or three
times, everyone keeps dying in the end like it was an unchangeable fate. I can
see someone’s lifespan and I knew when will a person die, but if I can’t save
them, it’s meaningless isn’t it? I don’t really care about anyone’s life
anymore, nothing I can do to save them.
“Hey! Why are you spacing out like
that?” someone clapped my back and it’s my friend that I waited really long,
Tommy.
“Don’t surprise me like that! And hey
you just wasted my precious time, you’re late”
“Don’t be like that Eldrick, it just
15 minutes, we still have a lot of time to have fun! Let’s go!”
“Ah, whatever.”
Today, I promised to go to the Game
Center with Tommy. He challenged me on a fighting games again, after his
lost-streak last week. He is the one who told me to come here on time, but he
is the one who came late. I hate everyone who came late, it really annoys me, but
what really annoys me right now is when he said ‘we still have a lot of time’.
That’s true I would say, at least for him. 455,520 hours left for Tommy to
live, it’s about 50 years. I can’t see my own lifespan, so I can’t say I have a
lot of time.
We arrived at the Game Center, this place
is sure crowded at the weekend. I don’t really like to come when the place is
crowded. however, in the end, I came because my friend wants to get his
revenge. I could say that Tommy is my only friend because I avoided making
friends with the others. It so hard to have fun with someone, the reason is
because of my power. I can’t imagine having fun with a person who will die
soon, and everyone doesn’t seem to care about me. I don’t know why, but Tommy
is always trying to befriend with me since we were a kid. I can’t just ignore
him back then, so I became friends with him. We even go to the same college and
hang out together in our free time.
“Ah man! You’re too good at this,
how can I lose for 20 times in a row?” said Tommy furiously.
“I don’t know, perhaps because
you’re really lame at this.” I said it with a smirk face on purpose to make him
angry.
“Damn you Eldrick! I’m going to beat
you in the next round, but first I'm gonna buy a drink. wanna come?” He leave.
"Yeah."
I followed him to buy a drink and we
sit on a bench on the Game center. We came here so many times before, perhaps
too much. I love this place, I love their games, and I love the drink as well.
Tommy looks run out of steam after 20 times lose-streak.
“Hey El, how’s your class? I mean,
do you get along with everyone?” that question coming out from nowhere.
“They’re good, at least I feel
comfortable in the class.”
“I see, that’s good.” He smiled.
While I enjoy my drink, I found something that catches my eyes. People
gathering in the same place, it doesn’t happen every day. Does something happen
there? I’m a bit curious about it though. So I asked Tommy “Look Tom, What is
happening there?”
“You’re right, let’s take a look.”
We approach the crowd, hoping for
something good to happen. When we got there, I saw a cute girl dancing
perfectly well. She has an average height, not too tall or short, a good body
proportional. Her short hair waving as she dances, I can say that she’s cute.
The crowd going crazy when she finished the song. She got a perfect score on an
extreme level.
“Wow, that girl was really amazing.”
Tommy was astonished by her dance as well.
Everyone lost their mind looking at her
perfect dance, the crowd are excited here. Her dance was perfect and all,
however that’s not the thing that surprises me. There is something wrong here,
I can see everyone’s lifespan here, and it doesn’t feel like my eyes hurt or
something. My power works perfectly, but why? That girl, unbelievable, I can’t
believe this. What is happening here? Why can’t I see her lifespan?
