Mistake

As a human, it’s our right to make a mistake.

I am a 28-year-old scientist who was known to make a disaster while inventing the time machine and was on news, people were saying that I shouldn’t exist, I have smashed a bus down, I shouldn’t have thought of the time machine and many more. Hate was searching for me always. But people around me don’t even know that I created a time machine, I didn’t burn the bus, and if I didn’t exist they wouldn’t have even known about the bus. 

Here’s how it all started, I accidentally while doing an experiment made a time travel machine. It was huge. I was amazed by my invention. I decided to try it. It took me 3 months ahead of what I live. 

[ DATE: 01/04/2022] 

It was pretty the same, nothing changed except the politicians, fruit vendors and clothes, new trend I guess. I went to my science lab ( future) to check how much great I must have become after the time travel one. But I was shocked after seeing an accident right in front of me. It was a truck of petrol dashing into a bus. The bus was fired and the people were killed. I was just dumb at the moment. Another surprising yet tragic one, was my future self running towards the bus, just to find that my future mother was dead in the accident. 

I thought to go back to the past and stop everything. But my time machine said ‘NO’. It stopped working all of a sudden. It took me to [30/03/2022] 2 days before the accident. All I had was exact 48 hours to save my single mother who raised me not minding the obstacles.

My time machine broke into pieces. Now I had to force my mother not to come to my place. I tried calling her but she didn’t lift. I tried messaging but it was of no use. I tried doing it for 12 hours but failed. 

I thought of utilising the 12 hours….it was 8 hours journey to 

The nearest news channel office… I thought of narrating what’s going to happen to the head as they could at least listen to me and change the timing of the bus. I travelled all the way there but due to the traffic, a few more hours were wasted. I only have 26 hours left. As I head inside I realised that I forgot my pass in the hurry, it was a last-minute decision. I begged the guards to allow me in. They didn’t. I found my friend coming towards, luckily in the name of his, I got in. I explained everything to them but that was of no use. At least my friend believed me. He said that he would try stopping the truck going from in that direction. I thanked him and left that place. After I reached home I only had 12 hours left. I didn’t have enough sleep or food. I was starving for 3 days, all I had was water in the intervals. I now need to inform the bus driver about that. I went to the accident place. It took me 10 hours to do so. I went to the place and waited for hours yet the bus didn’t come…..it’s almost the time for an accident to happen. But it didn’t. I waited for 3 hours but the bus didn’t come.

I thought it wasn’t going to happen so I felt relieved. I started my car and I was heading home but just then, the bus arrived.

I thought to change the direction of my car as it was going to hit the bus. But the bus fell into a big dump and was smashed. I was left dumb again. My friend who works in the news channel came to check if everything was fine. He too was shocked. Few people on the bus, along with my mother were dead. The others were injured. At this point, people criticised me badly. I was left in pain, my friend help me get out of depression. I tried figuring out how it all happened, though I tried and stopped. At this point, I then remembered any changes in the past would affect the future. I made a mistake. A huge one. I made a mistake by not thinking of the thing again. I made a mistake by not checking the time machine. I made a mistake by not checking the time of the accident. I made a mistake by not checking the driver of the truck. My future self was the driver of the truck, I was helping my very same reporter friend.

This incident proved that NO-ONE can ever change their past or future. This incident proved that no matter who you are, you make a mistake subconsciously. This incident also proved that no matter what you’re doing, helping or killing, people will still criticise you.

I got over all of these by now. I got to know things will get over. I am now by myself and my friend, still missing my mom. Hopefully, I will try not to make a MISTAKE again.