Time, Space, Me and the worlds' end

Submitted into Contest #239 in response to: Write a story where the laws of time and space begin to dissolve.... view prompt

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Fantasy

      Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep

           How I hate that alarm. The moment I hear it is the moment I remember I have to get up and get ready for another long day of…. way too many stuff. That is something I mustn’t think about, I have to be positive that today will be a good day.

           First, I do my bed. A girl must have her room nice and neat. Next, I put some clothes on and apply a light layer of makeup. You never know what might happen so I grab my trusty old friend, my bag.

           As I am getting out of my room, I look back at the clock next to my bed and notice that I’ve, apparently, spent 5 extra minutes getting ready. Oh well, no worries, we can go over the schedule every once in a while.

           I decide to skip breakfast today, that way I can get early to work. Who knows, maybe if I leave early, I might get out early.

           I laugh a little as the thought crosses my mind. Never have I gotten out early, no matter how early I arrive at work ever since I started working.

           As I clock in to work, I notice that the time it says doesn’t match the time I was supposed to have arrived at work. I’m pretty sure that there wasn’t more traffic than usual, and no accidents today either. So why? 10 minutes extra doesn’t make any sense.

           Oh, well. Who knows, maybe today is one of those days when it feels like time flows smoother.

           How wrong I was.

           As I get out of work, I check my phone only to notice that it is 10:pm, an hour over the regular days. Even on the days when I have an overload of work to do, I don’t get out this late.

           Once I get home, I’ll shower and go to sleep. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better.

           At least that was the idea, but the days only seemed to speed up until the extra 5 minutes I took to get to work that day eventually became 1 hour. Sure, it would be cool if we could just calculate how the change works, but we can’t. Apparently, the scientists and mathematicians working to solve this problem when suddenly there was a change in the time intervals. Time became slower for a while.

That at least was the good news.

For a while, we believed that time would slow down until it eventually returned to its natural course and stay that way. However, things don’t work as we wish.

Time slowed down even further after that. After that, it became impossible for us to determine time since it would change at random. Sometimes a day would feel like an hour and on other occasions, a day would be even close to a month.

They started to pair people together so that it’d be easier to monitor the flow of time, and to solve the sleeping issue. The latter was because some, like myself, wouldn’t sleep because they were too scared that they would oversleep and be late for their jobs.

I wish It would’ve stayed with just the time problem, the relationship between space began to fade as well.

It started small at first, kind of like skipping steps while walking. Then, the distance became smaller between the place you wanted to go and the place where you were. It kind of felt like everyone became sort of like Flash for a while.

The same issue that happened with time, happened to space. The distance became longer/bigger until it eventually felt like we were sloths trying to get from one place to another.

Later, the distance intervals became too erratic and too difficult to calculate. that everyone decided to give up and just deal with it.

However, today when I woke up, I noticed that I was back to that day when everything started to change just that now I had a bit of knowledge about what was going to happen.

Even knowing what was going to happen today, I decided to remain calm and face what I was going to encounter/live today. I exit my room and notice that the clock follows the schedule compared to that day. That is rather strange, things aren’t supposed to change just because I went back in time.

I start panicking a little in my head and notice that 2 minutes have already passed. No worries. I exit the house without breakfast once again, but now I don’t feel the urge to get to work early or late. As a result, I get there exactly on time.

I feel rather bored just sitting at my desk solving other people’s problems, so I decide to do something productive and speed up on doing the assigned tasks at hand right now. Once I get the haul that I did that day, I’ll leave.

Later, as I got out, I check my phone and notice that time didn’t flow as fast as it did the last time this happened.

As the days pass, I notice that time isn’t changing the way it did last time. I start studying the pattern between the flow of time and my daily routine. It seems that time doesn’t change at random, it changes depending on how I’m feeling. Also, it appears that the flow of space is changing just for me. I am the only one being affected by any changes in space.

Basically, depending on my mental state, time flows faster or slower. Depending on where and how fast I want to get there, is how the special distance changes.

I have already tested out both theories at this point, and looking back on what happened last time, I might have been the cause of those changes as well. I can’t apologize to anyone for what happened before since they don’t know, and I can’t apologize for what is happening now because that would mean putting myself in danger. However, I lift the burden and worries of some people for a certain period.

I do wonder, what will happen when I pass away? Is anyone gonna take over for me? If so, who? Or will the flow of time and space return to its natural course?

March 02, 2024 04:26

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