The Girl's Story

So this piece of writing was done during a blackout in my home. With no internet, hopefully I can be more focused and not getting distracted by whatever.

I’d like to begin this in old-fashioned way, so I’d like to start with..

Once upon a time, there lived an ordinary girl in ordinary house with no extraordinary power. Even though she is so ordinary, the girl loves fairytale, legends, or whatever story that has people with superpowers in it. She, especially like the stories which have pretty princess possessing a big heart with plus of having magic and got a very happy ending. Her childhood is filled with hope and dream of becoming a princess in a beautiful kingdom with a handsome prince beside her. Like most of all childhood dream, the dream is soon buried and forgotten as the little girl grow up.

Now the girl is 20 and she, once again, is fascinated by the princess, kingdom and all the magical powers. Most of the novels she read now featured a very cool heroine who is set on saving the world from a ruthless king or from a wicked evil being. Of course, not every heroine is damn awesome from the start, they also has to struggle, to be beaten again and again and to fell hard. Although at the end, the heroine would always, always got her way. The girl now feels sad. In 2016 where there is no more ruthless king to defeat or there are no magical beings with powerful secret artefacts, she felt that there is no more chance of her to be the cool heroine like in her novels.

She doesn’t realize how wrong she was until a lecture in Friday morning, awoke her

In her novels, maybe this is like the time when the main character finally set his heart on the goal, when finally, something opened her eyes, like a revelation. The girl felt something similar with that even without the thunder or the earthquake. She can too, save the world here, in 2016.

Her world now, is facing a grave danger not less dangerous than a dragon or a goblin attack. What her world will be facing is the end of the supply of fossil fuels, which will affect not only in her transportation but almost all of her life’s aspect. Does everyone in her world know that even the clothes they wear and the rice they eat almost every day is the product of fossil fuels either direct and indirectly? The people in her world now are being too dependent to their fossil fuels, while forgetting that it is not unlimited and it needs millions or even billions years to make it again.

Realizing this fact, the girl, once saddened because she felt that she doesn’t have the magic to save anyone, now feel different. She feels that it is her role now, to save her world, not now but maybe 20 or 30 years later. She found her new dream from the 50 minutes lecture she got from her professor. She would be a heroine in food industry, the one who’s going to ensure that there will still be good food available.

So for the sake of that dream, the girl started to practice. Maybe not practicing with bow or with swords like all the heroines in her novel, but by using books and pens, to later face her greatest own enemy. This world even if it’s at peace, still need saving, a nd who’s better than the girl and you, who’s reading this, to save it?