Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 - 2017 | Page 171

(Kim In Yook, 1963)
As the poem says, I realized it was my first love. Every night, I was full of anxiety that she loves me or not. However,
that didn’t go that long as I thought.
One day, I heard a voice in my dream… It sounded quite a bit like me. The man said “Don’t go out…” and
disappeared. So I just decided not to go out because, even though it wasn’t real, it was to scared to see him again.
Nothing happened, completely nothing… then I thought to myself. If I could tell to do or not to do something to
myself in the younger days, I would say to young me to say to my mother not to go out and die… That’s the only
way I can save her. 1 month later, I was able to see the beautiful doctor. All the armies were gone but she decided to
be left behind. No one knows the reason. I was on the way to the work and I saw her next to the sea. There was no
one looking at her or me. I was really happy that she had recognized me. I heard a voice someone whispering next
to me… there was no one but I heard some one whispering to me “Save her”… “Save her”… I didn’t know what I
should do. So I just ignored it and just went to work. On the night I’ve read a sad news which says a girl has died in
the sea. Unluckily, the girl was the girl who I’ve seen before. Everyone felt sorry for the girl.
Love is like a war :
Easy to begin Hard to end!
-ancient Proverbs-
Then I remembered that someone said “Save her”…”Save her” and I also remembered that the voice was similar
with the old man who was the man I saw in my dream.
20 years later, I was still in Shang Hai working and working. I’m now 29 years old now. Past 20 years were boring
because It had same daily life everyday. Eat-work-eat-work-eat-work –sleep-wake up. However, today was
different. I saw someone who I met before. It was the girl I met before in the war. I thought that she was dead but,
what she was saying to me was different. She told me that I’ve saved her life. However, I couldn’t remember
anything. I was so curious about it and I started studying in the age of 29. It was quite hard but, I never gave up.
When I was 60 years old, the mysteries made when I was young were actually solved. I’ve made a time-machine at
the age of 60. It worked successfully. Therefore, I started solving all the mysteries I have. Firstly, I went to the time
when my mum died. I found myself sleeping on the bed. So, I told to myself to say not to go out to my mum.
Suddenly, unknown memory with my mum was in my head. It was a new experience I’ve ever experienced. Then it
came to my memory, my mother had lived 40 years longer and I remembered she died 11 years ago. Then, I forgot
how my mum died for the first time.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no lose of enthusiasm
-Winston Churchill-
I went to my working place when I was 15 with my time-machine and I helped myself doing a great job. I
remembered when I was really confused with myself when the girl thanked me for saving her, I have no memory
about the scene that I saving the girl. I used my time machine to go when I saw her next to the ocean. And I have
witnessed a shocking thing. We was just getting ready to jump to the ocean. So I stopped her from going in the
ocean. By doing this, I felt ashamed because I didn’t save her when I was 9 years old even though I heard a voice to
save her.