That’s Life

                To write an adaption of Twilight Zone’s Time Enough at Last to our technology-dependent world would require one great change – computers instead of books. The plot would then be altered to the modern setting. All the people in every nation bury their nose in those tablets, phones, laptops and desktops.

                Henry Bernis say, happens to be a teenage computer games addict instead of a middle-aged bookworm. His rich parents scold him for being such a scumbag and a-good-for-nothing lad but he pretends to always hear nothing. They often tell him to get a life. He wishes to never hear those sermons again and be left alone with his games and tablet.

                He dozes off in one of his underground vault-like playrooms after spending the night to upgrade his level in his most prized game. All the while, nuclear bombs are released and wipe the land surface clean. He awakes with the sound of the great impacts. The tremors stop. He brings his tablet and checks what is happening above. Finding that their mansion has succumbed to the nuclear devastation, he searched their other underground rooms and all the while his only companion is the light from his tablet.

                Unfortunately, the tablet signals a warning that its battery is running low. Bernis thinks of putting an end to his life without anyone and anything left he loves. But wait, in the corner of their underground garage, he found his father’s solar-powered car equipped with all the latest gadgets and technology.  He gleefully drives it out the garage and plugs his tablet in one of the car’s outlet on the front bumper. He sets out to fetch his external hard disks he left on the playroom, taking his time to choose what games he will play first and what will be next.

                On his way back to the car, it starts to rain and though his tablet is waterproof he raced to its location. Just as he is few meters away from the car, lightning strikes the car and send his tablet flying.  He searches for it but upon finding it, it is just a useless piece of metal with a dark screen.

                He cries like a scared little boy and wonder out loud how life can be so unfair - as it is and always will be.

Soliman,Karla L.
2013-09067
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