I was shivering, I went cold and I was sweating. I had this feeling all of a sudden while I was reading a novel, a fiction. I couldn’t sleep that morning. I know it must be hard for you to accept that most people, in my world, usually sleep in the morning. I thought of it as a bad dream but it could not accept it because I could feel exactly the way it was described in that novel. I closed it and I never read that novel again. But it was not just that. I couldn’t use my electrophone to spend time to check out what going on with the world.
Once, I was swiping my electrophone and all of a sudden, an image with three words splashed and I was in pain for a few days after that. Because of that, I have a tattoo on my left leg, and it is visible whenever I go for a swim in my back-ocean. It actually looks nice but I never wanted a tattoo. And that’s the time I decided to throw away my over-smart-electrophone. And guess what, I got connected to a place, a world which looks exactly the same as was in my galleria, but all those things are right in front of me now. I don’t know which one to call the magic; to make the things real by reading it or to throw away the screen.
But that’s not all. I can still read the billboards and sometimes, they do even worse than a tattoo. Sometimes, I feel lonely because I don’t have many beings around me. Everyone I knew they come in a flash and go and everytime they come, I can see their hand going inside their pocket and everytime they vanish into thin air, I see their hand taking out something from their pocket.
A lot of things had happened just because I read. A meteor came very close to my planet and it was almost going to be extinguished but it didn’t happened because whatever I read becomes reality when I sleep and the next time I wake up, I have to face the consequences. My friend who knew my problem saw me reading this book and he made a slight modification in the book before I read it. Next day, we could see the asteroid in the sky when everyone was asleep in the daylight. It just passed by. From that time onwards, I totally trust his recommendations. It is really hard for me to live without reading and he knows that and that’s why I trust him. He sometimes gives me a page from some book with a few holes in the middle and few words hand-written and I believe that he read those pages and removed the words which would do something to me and added the words which were tore apart on the other side of the page. Sometimes, bad words affect the other side of the part which could have been the best part of the story. So, mind your words.
Don’t you wonder about the positive side of this and I would be lying if I tell you that I didn’t read motivational, inspirations, money-making stories to make myself prosperous. You can imagine me, right!
The part I am going to miss is, I won’t even read what I am writing you right now because I don’t want another tattoo on my left leg.
Nemo's World 