LAST CALL FOR ALL THE PASSENGERS. THE LAST TRAIN WILL DEPART BY 10:00 PM.
It was already late, so a few are only left in the station. The announcement doesn't stop, and the remaining people hurriedly get on the train.
"Excuse me, Miss. The train is almost departing. Aren't you coming in?"
A young lady with a white skin tone and could be considered a charming one worriedly look down to this other woman silently sitting on the bench.
80. The woman sitting wondered.
"Miss?"
The young lady was still there, awaiting a response from the other.
Alice: "Thank you for reminding me, I dozed off a little. My name's Alice, nice to meet you"
The young lady awkwardly smiled.
"Great that I'm of help, my name's Tia. You got a beautiful name"
Alice finally stand up from her seat and pick up the bag that lied beside her.
Alice: "Tia, you got a wonderful future ahead. Please don't be led astray by anything"
Alice then left, leaving Tia, the poor girl stunned.
Tia: "Is she a fortune teller?"
Inside the running train, despite the amount of available space, only around 20 were inside. And the atmosphere was as silent as possible.
But among these few passengers, there was only one person who could seek through them.
The old woman sleeping on the seat got mark with 60 on her head. And the young student beside got 75. While the drunkard who doesn't even bother to sit on the bench and just lied on the floor, got 15, 14, 13...... and so on by each minute.
Alice wondered, if she could see all these numbers representing the life on them, why couldn't she was able to view hers, even when she stood in front of the mirror.
The name Alice that stand for Truth and Reality couldn't understand the reality of the human life.
After a 20 minute ride, the train finally reach it's destination.
As the people were ready to left, their attention got divert to the drunkard falling body.
Soon, a conductor arrived to inspect the situation. His shocking face as he touch the pulse of the drunkard immediately reveal the situation.
Everyone freak out, realising that they are riding with a dead body. An ambulance was called, that later retrieve the corpse while the conductor tried his best on calming the passengers.
But even after all those thing, Alice was unaffected.
As long as she can remember, those numbers appeared in every person she has met. When she was young, everyone take it as a joke and often tease her for it. She also thought that it was funny and would often point at each people, telling them how many numbers they got.
But realisation kick in, as she somehow figure out the lesser of a number the person get, the higher the chance of them dying soon. She first thought it was a countdown of how many days they get to live, but the number she seen are no more than 100. And even some people below the number 20 get to live as long as a year.
Thus, she could figure out that it's the likely chance of a person to live or die. Most elderly people got between 50-60 because they are cared by the young ones and knew that they are close to death. Young children mostly started with 100, while adult are around 60-80. And people that are unlucky in live and desire death got no more than 20. But this doesn't apply to all. Even people with great hardship could be above 80, because they got the desire to live. And even some died of natural causes or murder even when their numbers are at the peak. Of course, no one could stop the law of life. We died either by suicide, murder or because of natural disaster that we ourself created.
But until now, I was unable to view mine.
The fear on those passenger were crystal clear, and the numbers on their head keep on increasing as they have greater desire to live by seeing the death.
Alice just walk away neither afraid nor relieved, she was just as always. She again look towards the train, which reflected her image. As drowsy and tired as she looks, she still looks very healthy, healthy enough to live for another decade.
But something unexpected happen which made her flabbergasted. On her head appear a shiny thing, revealing a number which was never before.
40.
Even though life was hard, she never actually thought of dying. So the low number actually quite shook her.
Alice: "I see, so that is it?"
Those numbers not only represent life, but the truth and reality of this world.
When young, we see the world like a fairytale, and believe that nothing bad could ever occured, so thus the number 100. But as we grew up, the heavy weight we carry with us make us stood low, because we are slowly facing the reality we never imagine to happen.
When we turn to be adult, the tension was greater because many would strive to be what was expected from them by the society, and only few like Tia truly seek happiness because they pursue their own dream, not caring for the people who wants to manipulate them.
And by the time we grew old, we thought that we do as much as we can and could finally live in peace. We realise that our end is coming soon, but we breathe in relief, believing that no trouble would follow, just like the innocent mind we have when we are children.
These numbers were created by these toxic society, who would rather point out a single bad thing and not congratulate us for the 100 of good deeds we perform.
That is it, this is the numbers that represents not only life, but the harsh reality.
