[Fiction] Our journey

Writer of fiction: Chocolate Ginger
Genre: fantasy.

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1/ Soul: I thought this was journey of N and K. Now it becomes my journey.

Miracle: Don't worry. I am by your side.

Soul: Thanks. So it is our journey.

Miracle: What should we do now?

Soul: We need to get on the train. Each station is each experience.

Miracle: Got it.

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She is about sixty years old. This woman is hard-working. She has been working hard all her life for her family. Her husband treats her badly. Her children don't understand her. She looks after them despite of their bad behaviors. She also takes care of her grandchildren.

She has been suffering physical and mental domestic violence.

She is a typical situation of many other women in this country who are victims of domestic violence.

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Soul: We can't do anything to help her and other women like her?

Miracle: I'm afraid we can't. We just can tell their stories and hope that in the future there is not domestic violence any more. 

2/ Soul: When I feel lost and lonely, the books help me a lot. They give me good advice. They give me hope, joy and peace. They make me feel relieved and happy. I want to thank the authors who wrote those books. They share their precious experience to readers like me.

3/ Miracle: Today is your birthday. Do you want to do something? Eat out and have your birthday cake?

Soul: Thanks, I'd love to. But I'm used to eating at home.

Miracle: All right. We have potatoes and carrots for soup, rice and chicken. We also have bananas and lychees.

Soul: That sounds great.

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Soul: Yesterday, I read two pages of Harry Potter. The words in that book are strange, difficult and artistic. I also read Conquer happiness. This book makes me open my mind. If I am a sand of this universe, so we are two sands talking to each other.

Miracle: That's funny. Two sands.

Soul: Yeah.

Miracle: Wait. I have an idea. Let me search...natural phenomena. Here. On wikipedia. 
Types of natural phenomena include: Weather, fog, thunder, tornadoes; biological processes, decomposition, germination; physical processes, wave propagation, erosion; tidal flow, moonbow, blood moon and natural disasters such as electromagnetic pulses, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

Soul: So...?

Miracle: We can be healthy, we can be sick. We can be happy, or sad, worried, nervous, or confident, hopeful, cheerful. Just like today is sunny or rainy or cloudy, or windy, or snowy. The nature has a lot of phenomena, like humans have many emotions.

Soul: Interesting!
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Soul: I am a part of a huge whole. So everyday is my birthday. I have so many birthday parties each day.

Miracle: So you won't have time to do anything but enjoy your birthday.

Soul (laugh).

4/ Soul: My elder aunt is busy taking care of her husband, my elder uncle-in-law. My mother is busy looking after her grandchildren, my niece and nephew.

My elder aunt and my mother live far away from each other. They only can spend 5 days or one week to visit each other.

I have time but I don't have money. Thanks to this chance, I can travel so far with you.

5/ Soul: Two years ago, I had an accident. It wasn't serious but I had to undergo an operation. The operation wasn't complicated but due to schedule of the hospital, I had to stay at the hospital for thirteen days.

I had an unusual experience during those thirteen days. I got used to staying at the hospital. When I came back home, I still remembered the routine at the hospital. I went to bed early and got up early. I did nothing but slept, walked around and waited for my operation. I found the bathroom at the hospital more familiar than that at my home. It is weird, right? But those were my feelings. Staying at a place for enough time made me feel as if I belonged to that place.

6/ Soul: The water is pure.

Miracle: Let's walk into water.

Soul: Wow, it is cool and comfortable.

Miracle: You really love water.

Soul: Yeah. I can imagine how it is woderful to swim, to breathe, to discover in water. 

Soul and Miracle enjoy the fantastic feelings as they are in water.

They visit a waterfall and then the sea. They spend several days on that beautiful view.

Soul: I feel as if the water was holding me, was playing with me.

Miracle: The water is lifting us, gives us complete freedom and peace.

7/ Soul: I like Orange Jasmine.

Miracle: It is a tropical evergreen plant. Do you understand what "evergreen" means ?

Soul:  Not really.

Miracle: Well, an evergreen plant, bush, or tree has leaves for the whole year.
Soul: Interesting.
Miracle: It has oval, shiny, deep green leaves.

Soul: Yeah.
Miracle: It has small, fragrant flowers.

Soul: I love white color and sweet smell of orange jasmine blossoms.

8/ Soul: At that time, I lacked of sleep beacause I was emotional. I went to bed at 10 p.m. and woke up at 3 or 4 a.m. Then I couldn't sleep. I was tired and sleepy during the day.
At first, I didn't know how to solve that problem. After that, I decided to listen to English for half an hour and then slept again. That worked. I woke up, listened to English and slept till 6. 30 a.m.
I also wrote something in 45 minutes or an hour. That situation lasted for about 5 days or a week. Then, I had normal sleep as usual.

As I had a lot of ideas at that time, they needed to be turned into words and I felt that I didn't have enough. Consequently, I couldn't sleep well.

That period is so amazing and unique. I don't think it would happen again. I don't hope it would happen again. Because I was very tired. I felt as if I had been exhausted.

9/ Soul: If I were a member of a team, but I couldn't fit into my team. What should I do?

Miracle: Maybe you should find another team which you can be suitable for. I know that requires time and effort. However, I think it'll be worth.

10/ Soul: There are 10 members of a group. Nine of them agree on an issuse but one thinks differently. Who is right?

Miracle: That group or the different member should open mind, look for around or go far away to find that this world is so large, there are so many viewpoints which are various. At that time, they will realize that they are either right or wrong. There is not a complete truth.

11/ Soul: I am a small part of a huge picture. People think, behave, believe and live in different ways. However, there are customs, lifestyles which last so long that many people believe that they are right. Likewise, a small number of people who dominate this word. The rest of the world respect, admire and follow them. I wonder if they are right or wrong. I want to know whether their words, their actions are reasonable and good.

Miracle: I know this is a big question. We don't go enough far, we don't read enough books, we can't live long to understand our world. We just have our own life, experience, past and knowledge. 

12/ Miracle: Why do you love stories like stories of N and K?

Soul: Because their relationship has little burden. They aren't pregnant, they don't give birth to babies. Their family and social duties aren't tough as those of women. The most important thing is that they are equal. Both of them can be active or passive. Their story is happy and joyful. Neveetheless, in real life, people like them still suffer discrimination. 

13/ Miracle: We have boiled vegetales, chicken and rice for breakfast.

Soul: The chicken is softer. I have cooked it several times. Now it tastes delicious.

14/ Soul: The water is dirty. The river is polluted. I want to purify the water. If the river is cleaner, it would be great.

Miracle: Do you hear about "Grasses for the Masses" program?

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Soul: Not yet.
Miracle: Well, underwater grasses help reduce erosion, increase oxygen levels, and absorb some of the harmful nutrients that enter the waterways.
Soul: Wow, wonderful!
Miracle: Yeah, like a magic, right?

Soul (smile cheerfully).

14/ Soul: Would you like to go hiking and  climb in the mountain with me?

Miracle (smile): Last night, you heard two of your sweethearts go climbing and today you want climb in the mountain?

Soul (laugh): That's right.
Miracle: Okay. Let's go. We don't need to prepare several things. It's simple.

Soul (smile): Thanks.