She dives in her thoughts
About her life
Life she had then,
And the life she is leading now.
   
Away from her loved ones
For her something hurts 
Deep inside her heart. 

But, she has a dream
To be a person
No one wants her to be
Except for her mom and dad.

Who knew what she had.
It's her dream  that she will complete.

Noone can take it away from her
Because she has a dream to be,
And she knows that she will be.
 

It was the world 4108 A.D and technology has taken over the world in a way that was out of people’s imagination. Everything was done using computers. Officers were replaced by Robots. Teachers were replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Not only that, people could now implant bio-tech in their body to learn anything. Even in this wonderful world, a man named Damien still felt incomplete. He was very interested in the past and used to hear tales about it from his grandma. He even used to research on the daily activities of people of the past. He often said things like, “Did you know Grandma, in the year 2018 A.D, people actually used to go to schools and do all their work themselves. They even got to play outside with real friends. But all I have now are 1000 friends in online games, and I don’t even know a single one of them. I wish we could live like people of the past. That seems more interesting.” So Damien here was unhappy with the kind of world they lived in.

He was a technician and loved to make different devices. He didn’t want to use any help from the robots and wanted to craft everything by himself. After 6 years of struggle, he finally finished a time machine. It was the first time anyone had ever did such a thing. So, he immediately went to find his Grandma and told her the good news. She was also very happy about it and congratulated him and said, “Now you can go back in time and see the world you dream of in real.”

Damien gave it a little thought and spoke, “I know everything about the 21 st century. I want to go to the year I know absolutely nothing about. First I will travel 50 million years ago and I will see what that world has for me to see.” So, he sat on his time machine. Left all the technologies from the 40th century and set the time to 50 million years back and started the machine. It was an amazing view as the time machine started and just vanished.

After 5 minutes, Damien found himself in the world similar to his. He thought the time machine failed and was very sad about it. Just when he was about to go for a walk around he found a very amusing tool lying on the ground. It was a very highly advanced piece of tech and he wondered “This is not from my world. If there was an device like this, I would know about it. Could I really have travelled through time and got to the future instead of past?”

So there were some unanswered questions. As he was walking by, he saw a girl. He stopped her and asked, “Do you know where I am?” She laughed and replied, “What do you mean, where you are. You’re on land.” Damien felt quite weird to hear that answer and asked, “I’m sorry. I mean which country I’m in.” She again answered with a puzzled look, “What is a country? What are you talking about? It isn’t safe out here at this time. So follow me here and we will talk about it more.”

After they got inside what it seemed to be an abandoned factory she asked, “What did you mean by country?” Damien said, “You know the part of land divided by a boundary inside which people of a similar culture live.” She didn’t say anything for a bit, but eventually she said “What are you talking about? We don’t have divided land for some people only. It’s just land and water.” Just then it struck him that he had once read somewhere that in the ancient time the world itself was a huge island.” He said, “Oh-oh, I have really travelled 50 million years in the past.”

The girl all puzzled said, “What are you talking about?” Damien came back to his senses and said, “This may sound a little bit weird but I’m from the future and I’m lost here.” Now she froze for a moment. After a long pause, he finally asked, “By the way, who are you?” She in a very small voice said, “My name is Sakshya. Sakshya Snow. I’m still progressing what you said earlier.” He said, “I’m Damien. Damien West. I know it’s overwhelming for you to hear this and take your time.” As she was staring in the floor,Damien asked, “How is this place not safe, to be honest I’m a little scared” She replied,“We’re in the middle of a warzone. It started as just a minor conflict between two very powerful people and if it doesn’t end soon, we should see the greatest battle in the history of the earth and all humanity will be doomed to the same fate at the same time. That fate is Death. With an arsenal of powerful weapons, hate and stubbornness, that day is not that far.” As she was saying these all things, Damien thought, “This world has developed in technologies that aren’t even there in my time. I also read the technologies were only starting to develop in the 19th century. But how can this be? There’s only one explanation to this. What she is predicting will actually come true and all the people from this world will be wiped.” He thought about telling her that but couldn’t. He had only met her an hour ago and couldn’t say that she was going to die soon. So he kept that inside him.

After talking about each other’s time for a while, Sakshya said, “Since you’re new here, why don’t you stay at my place for a while. I don’t have any family and neither have I got any friends. It would be nice to have some company.” Damien agreed to this and they both went to her house. It wasn’t much of a house. It was a small one roomed house with a bed, a couch, a small kitchen and a table and refrigerator which was in a really bad shape. Sakshya said, “It’s not much but it’s a home for me” Damien followed with, “It’s nice.” To this Sakshya just giggled and said, “That was funny. Anyway, you can sleep on the couch and if you’re hungry there might be food in the fridge.

That day passed by and from the next morning they became more and more close to each other. They used to eat together, play together and do many fun activities. Since, Damien’s time machine was broken, it needed maintenance. So he had about a month before he could travel to his time. From that day, they became the best of friends and enjoyed each other’s company a lot. She often said, “I shouldn’t say this but I’m glad that you’re stuck here with me.” Damien just used to smile to this. As much as he wanted to go back home, he was actually loving a life there with Sakshya. Soon, he was in love with her but he didn’t tell her about his feelings as he would disappear from that time period in about a week.

All the necessary parts of the time machine were repaired in about 3 days, he would go back to his time. There were 2 things he wanted her to know, before he left. First thing was, the world might end because of the war and she might die soon. But he couldn’t say that because he knew she will hate him because of that. The next thing was, he loved her. But he couldn’t say that either because he would hate himself for leaving her alone. So he remained quiet.

On the day, Damien was about to go back to the future, Sakshya came to bid him goodbye. She cried a little and said, “Can’t you stay?” He smiled, hiding his tears, having said goodbye to his love and he further said, “I don’t belong in the world. The future may be jeopardized if I say. So sorry I have to go. After saying this he set the time period to 4108 A.D and started the machine. A light flashed and Damien along with the machine disappeared again.

Sakshya turned back with tears in her eyes and a wish in her mind to see Damien again. As she was crying she felt a hand on her shoulder. As she turned back she saw Damien. She hugged him tightly and with tears in her eyes, she said, “Why did you come back?” Damien smiled and said, “I went back in my time but regretted leaving you here. In my time there, I found out that the only person I loved, my Grandma was gone. Even before I came here, I thought my life was incomplete but now I know, you make my life complete. I love you Sakshya.” She *still crying with joy* said, “I love you too and don’t you ever leave me again.” After their brief intimate encounter, she finally asked, “What about the future?”. Damien kissed her forehead and said, “Dearest Sakshya, it took me a while to realize it but I don't want a future without you.”

While hugging her, Damien thought, “I told her the second thing that I wanted to tell her. Even if my assumption is correct and this world does end soon, I want to spend all the time we have with her.” AND THE REST WAS INDEED HISTORY.

Some of you maybe like, yeah I know, it's that old TV series, well yes you aren't wrong but for me…

‘Friends’ are those people with different origins, who were strangers at first but time and trust made them a family, the family that you cannot forget nor can you afford to lose. Friends, they are the family we choose, the people with whom we want to have fun and spend quality time. Friendship is the bond created on its own with those people, the bond that you don’t want to break. This bond is a feeling for some and this feeling grows stronger especially when you find someone who understands you better than anyone, who cares about you more than anyone, that person is your best friend. He/She will never let go of you no matter the situation, no matter the odds. To my understanding, friends may remain for a reasonable period of time, but a best friend will stay with you till the end of time, even if hell freezes over.

So, the point here is friends are valuable, keep them, love them, adore them but don't lose them.

It’s 11:
I sit down to write a poem.

Ideas in my mind wriggle;
Yes, there has to be some.

Did I overestimate myself?

I can’t think of any words.
Who would have known that writing
Would be so difficult?

It is making my brain brawl.

Hell, this wasn’t supposed
To be that hard!

Now I need something to rhyme with it:
How about the guard?

Is it the writer’s block
Or am I just a fraud
Making excuses,
for this is so much harder than I thought?

How about a girl? 
Or my dog?
Sure, love would be a great idea
To write about.

Alright, I’ll just finish the poem
Tomorrow morn.