From that day, I thought i was having a strange but an interesting dream. But fro the sound of a clock ticking and the city being its usual noisy self, made me realise that it is not a dream
Numbers were floating on top of everyone's head, changing all the time...some would differ all the time, some would stay at the same number...
I had a difficulty trying to figure out what they meant at all...their bank accounts? their passwords? or how many times they regretted something they have done?
it was all a mystery to me...I would always zone out in the middle of the conversation staring at someone's head
But then...one day...I figured it out myself...the numbers...actually represented how much they love themselves...
I didn't have a number over my head because I didn't have any specific feeling towards myself...I just considered myself as a normal human being...until the superpower I was given started to exhaust me little by little
Since I would always stare at those numbers...people would react differently towards me. They started to talk behind my back, comment on how I was ugly and pathetic...Their comments made me feel worse about myself...it made me hate myself to the level that I wanted to kill myself
and the following day...I found a number floating above my head in my reflection
of course, at first I didn't know what those numbers meant...I was scared that the number on my head meant the time left for me to live...
but i didn't die, thankfully...the moment I found a number imprinted on my head, I tried to do every sort of thing to see what that number 4 meant
This definitely wore me out and made me lose my hope. I shouted at myself for being useless, stupid and ugly..and then I noticed that the number dropped to 0...it was at that time that I figured it out
and I am glad for it...I began looking at myself in the mirror...pointing out what positive things i had...it made me feel happier about myself and i noticed the number increase to 8
the number made me smile and I started to embrace my every flaw...my every quirk...my every mistake...because these things make me what I am...it makes the UNIQUE ME
