I am enjoying my ordinary day as usual and suddenly everything suddenly goes silent. The horns of the cars on the street stopped, the clock on wall stopped ticking and the wind is not blowing anymore. When I went outside my room I discovered that people are frozen in the mid-way not only that people also stopped in the mid-thought, everyone has become a living statue all around the world. Except for me the entire world stopped gor exactly one hour. I'm the only living being which can walk around and act freely without any problem.
At first, this kind of idea feels way too thrilling. I can think of thousand possibilities and it can never end. This one hour I can do anything and there's no rules, no witness and no one can stop me from doing anything, but once the excitement settles, I would think about it deeply what will I choose in this situation?
This is definitely a strange gift, which I won't let go in vain. In the beginning I would feel curiosity. I will walk around and keep an eye on everything. It is gonna be fascinating to see life being paused. It would give me a peaceful chance to truly look at life.
I would appreciate the time as it's valuable, I would write down my plans and dreams without any disturbance. My phone won't buzz anymore and there's no urgency to finish my food fastly there's no urgent tasks, it will be only me with the silence and clarity.
My deepest darkest desire can never over come my true feelings where I want to help someone in need without letting them know that I did it for them, because I don't want any kind of credits. All I want is to see others being happy in their life and everyone is living in harmony. Well, there are some people in my life who are struggling and I can’t seem to help them all of the time but in that frozen hour, I would love to leave some small acts of kindness behind.
The first thing came in my mind is to motivate someone by slipping an encouraging note into their pocket or I can clean up someone's room which is messed up pretty badly. Or I will leave food infront of the homeless people they can thank the God and think of it as a miracle. I know these actions are small, but I believe when time will reume, the people I have helped it could be their best day of life.
If I had lost to temptation then I could imagine myself stealing from a store or stealing money from bank or someone like a corrupted politician. Or invading into others privacy and reading their secret messages which was meant to stay hidden. The thought would definitely come into my mind, but I know that it will leave me with the feeling of emptiness and guilt.
What if after changing the things I shouldn't might turn out really bad and someone else faces the consequences for me. Also, it doesn't matter if I am taking the money from a bad person or good person because stealing is stealing no matter what. If I do the bad thing to the bad guy then what is the difference between him and me?
My ideology tells me not to even think of such thing and always follow the path of fair. In the last few minutes I would stand still and appreciate the frozen time which has given me peace and opportunity to do something good for others. Time moves so fast that we don't have time to pause and notice it.
I value the time and I often felt like it would be better if I could froze time. Because sometimes I can not finish my work on time and I would wish that time stops whenever I need to finish my work. Anyway I won't choose greed or chaos. I would definitely use it to make others day.
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