Ophelia

Ophelia and the Journey Inside the Book

It is yet another day of Ophelia's boring life. Ever since she was a child, everyone in her class taunt her because of her name being old fashioned. She was hurt every time and even started to hate it, trying to make everyone call her Lia instead. Even so, deep inside her she was always greatful for her mother giving her the name of Ophelia, a character in William Shakespear's drama, Hamlet. A very tragic yet a very aesthetic story. Her mother told her of this young woman who drowned herself in the river in a beautifully dramatic way, flowers in her hands with arms wide open, oh what a great way to die. Her name was Ophelia, a name that made her love the way people live their lives before when she was a child. The unmodernized world where life was without the use of technology like medical devices. This things that prolongs life unnaturally instead of reducing the sufferings of many, a life that accepts death as a part of being a human being. A life without phones and other uses of online telegram instead, they make handwritten letters and face to face communication with the people that they love and met everyday.

It's been a while, a great while of reminiscing the past. She is in high school now in her 18th. She once again took the book that her grandmother gave her before she died saying that it was her favorite and she should read it if she gets tired of this world and it will broaden up her imagination like going to another better world, "Oh how I wish I could actually go here like grandma said and experience this kind of life, how I wish to go to this kind of places, away from all this stress and nightmares of my own world," a murmured in her mind. She closed her eyes with all her feelings wandering deep inside her and fell asleep later. The moment she opened her eyes, a new world flashed before her eyes. She felt the wind caressing her skin gently, "Where am I? Is it a dream? Maybe if I pinched myself I'll be able to wake up, Ouch!" she said while trying to convince herself that it was just a dream. "Oh shit, maybe I'm not dreaming maybe someone out there heard my wishful thinking. Even if this is just a dream, I think I'll just enjoy this moment and explore the forest that is right infront of me now," she murmured to herself again as she was walking in a very green world.

Big trees in her surroundings, the birds sing their joyful songs, the sunlight was glimpsing through the branches of the leaves. She looked up, took a long deep breath, "I'm so happy, this dream...it feels so real. I wish I could stay here longer, I'll go continue my adventurous walk in this magestic forest as much as I can," she wandered in her thoughts and continued her walk to the unknown.