Thursday 2 March 2023 around 8:50 a.m

There, I sat again listening to my biology teacher like every other Thursday. As always, he was talking about how humans were doing badly when it came to taking care of our planet. To be honest, I always found his lessons interesting but depressing at the same time. Like what was I supposed to feel when he continued on repeating that people from my generation might not have a future if it continued like this.

I understand that they have to educate us on how to do better than the generations before, but the only thing those lessons did was discourage us. We asked ourselves things like,' What if we studied our asses off but still couldn't get a job because we may not have a future'.

The next lesson geography didn't really help either because there we learned maybe by the time we are 43 the world as we know it now may have changed. But not in a good way since we are exhausting the resources of the earth at such a fast tempo that we might not be able to live like now by 2050.

The only way we found ways to escape reality was to make jokes about. Jokes like 'What if by 2040 there was an apocalypse where a virus way worse than COVID-19 broke out' and that sadly for us, we had no resources for medicine anymore because the earth's natural resources would already be exhausted. As we all know, most of the medicine we have today was somehow inspired by nature. That meant if we one day went so far as to destroy multiple ecosystems of the world, it would be the end of humanity. But at the end of the day, we would just laugh and say that it's all made up in our heads and that those things only happened in books or films. I used to say that our fantasies could make a good book, but of course, we were all lazy, and none of us was ready to write it down.

Back to the present

Ugh, not these dreams again or better said memories. Hi, my name is Star, and I am 38 years old. I work in a science lab specializing in finding cures. I hate my job, but right now, these are the most needed jobs, which means it pays the most.

Growing up, I wanted to become an architect.

I was smart, but I hated studying. That's why my math and physics scores were always a little on the lower sides. Thank God for me. When I actually tried my best studying, my points always got higher, and that's how I survived school. I had to give up on my dreams as I realized that the way the world was going at that time, what would get me the most money for survival, was to become a scientist. Luckily for me, I was already studying science mathematics, so changing career paths wasn't that difficult.