My mother carried me on her back and flied away in the sky. First we thought we were flying over a foreign city but as I watched the buildings and the streets down there , I felt they looked more familiar, and then I realized we were flying over our old neighborhood but with the time machine turning 40 years back.
We landed down in the street where my family house existed, and we started to walk around the neighborhood that looked very different from how it looks nowadays.
We commented on every change that we knew would happen in the future, like the house that would be demolished and the high-rise building that would be constructed in the same location, or the pedestrian square would turn into a parking lot.
I found a small toy in the street and I bent down to pick it up when a woman with a 3 or 4 years old son asked in an unfriendly tone "Does this toy belong to you" I was taken back by her attitude and replied no. She snatched the toy from me and went away.
The pedestrian square was busy with the people coming and going. We were walking around looking at everything and with our flash forward vision turned on, we knew that everything will get demolished and rebuilt in a different way in the years to come. We yearned for the past of our old neighborhood.
We landed down in the street where my family house existed, and we started to walk around the neighborhood that looked very different from how it looks nowadays.
We commented on every change that we knew would happen in the future, like the house that would be demolished and the high-rise building that would be constructed in the same location, or the pedestrian square would turn into a parking lot.
I found a small toy in the street and I bent down to pick it up when a woman with a 3 or 4 years old son asked in an unfriendly tone "Does this toy belong to you" I was taken back by her attitude and replied no. She snatched the toy from me and went away.
The pedestrian square was busy with the people coming and going. We were walking around looking at everything and with our flash forward vision turned on, we knew that everything will get demolished and rebuilt in a different way in the years to come. We yearned for the past of our old neighborhood.
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