Irida Rosta N.

Story 005: 10, 30, 60

Hello, and welcome to the universe that I live in.

My name is Irida Rosta N. and I will be accompanying you in the next few moments of your life.

So... After reading all of those stories, you still come back here again, huh.

I'm happy, honestly. I'm truly happy.

After all, only the first story that I shared that might not have given you any negative feeling.

It is really hard choosing what story to share and what kind of feeling that the story might evoke within you.

Most of the time, though, happy story evokes positive feeling and gloomy story evokes negative feeling. But this isn't always the case.

Sometimes, happy story can evoke negative feeling, depending on your situation, and gloomy story can evoke positive feeling, depending on your psychology.

Well... If reading gloomy story evoke some kind of positive feeling within you, please go consult a psychiatrist. Chances are you have some kind of mental illness.

Not that I know since I'm not a psychiatrist or anything.

Anyway... I'm thinking of sharing a story that might motivate you this time.

What kind of story is it?

Well, you just have to wait and see.

Thus, without any further ado, let me share you the next story.

***Story 005***

***10, 30, 60***

On the year 2010, when I was just a ten-year-old boy who naively dreamed to be a comic book author when I grow up, I got my hand on something strangely incredible. I believed I got it when I was buying my favorite soft drink, the grape-flavored soda, in the only convenient store in my village. My village was very small, so it was no surprise there that there was only one convenient store. Up to this day, I still remembered the way how it looked like and the poster with the words 'This universe is full of mysteries' written on it plastered on its window. As for what those words means and why it was there, no one knew. Not even the employee who was attending the cash register at that time.

Anyway, I got sidetracked. Sorry. The strangely incredible things that I got my hand on was a coin. I got it as a small change from the employee who worked at the convenient store after buying a grape-flavored soda, my favorite soft drink. Now, some of you might say that a coin was a normal thing and it was nothing extraordinary.

Well, if the coin in question had the year 2010 written on it or the previous year or even the previous previous year written on it, then yes, it would be an ordinary coin. But the coin that I got had the year 2060 written on it! And, that was incredibly extraordinary!

After all, if the coin really had the number 2060 written on it, then I got my hand on a coin from the future. I got a coin from forty years in the future!

But, of course, I didn't believe it at first. So, I checked it with other people and those who was expert on money. And, all of them said that the coin was real. It was a real coin! Can you believe that?

Unfortunately, I couldn't use the coin precisely because of the number 2060 was written on it. After all, other people would believe that it was a fake money. So, I had no choice but to have it with me all the time. I put that coin in a safe inside my room since I didn't want people to find out about it, else I was going to be reported as someone who spread fake money.

Years passed and I slowly forgot about the existence of that coin. I became a 30-year-old man and, miraculously, managed to get a work as a cash register in the only convenient store in my village. Yeah, the one where the poster with the word 'This universe is full of mysteries' plastered on its window. Somehow, even after all those years, the poster was still plastered there. Well, my favorite grape-flavored soda was also still in circulation, so it wasn't all that weird, I guess.