“Error! Error! Error!”

Anusha Pandey
Aug 31, 2018 · 3 min read

The smile quickly faded from your florist’s face when the screen read ERROR . It read — couldn’t download, no storage left for this device. Yes, too many versions of anxieties and sadness have crept in the device and yet you could not think of letting go of those memories.The moment you let them go, it feels like you’re empty already. Will you dare to erase? Think again, you have spent profuse amount of time to each of those apps.

Argh! Half cent of the viruses is detected! What else could that have been?

“Ha! Your series of doldrums, you fool!” It felt as if that was echoed.

The windows popped out of nowhere and it began and began: waiting to attack. So will you take revenge? No! Don’t let yourself function like the strategic games for the sake of another lie of security. You see, too many problems for a puny human, yet you do not reach for help. Instead, you reach for the exit button and you saw it coming that another window lies there smirking. This sends chill of pain to your heart. What is bothering you? Was it that you lost the email address of your friend who is no longer in contact? Was it that you cannot trust your decision? Did you consider thinking about situation in advance for now to deal with pressure? It was unlikely to be that sort of problems. You remember that it was quiet a five minute of journey to download when you first received it. Happiness after all could not be downloaded. You gave the same bland expression again.

The mouse button hovers to the icon of heart resembling a delete button but you surely didn’t click it. You bozo! Why let it stay and cause more pain?

Even the updated version of happiness is incompatible to your damaged and lost device. The outdated device if you were to be more precise. It ended up being an empty shell: void of anything but your doldrums and despondency. There were files filled to brim with the happiness. Now, there is nothing for you to focus on.

You wanted to be adult when you were a child, not knowing childhood will be the one you desperately would want back. In the quest of achieving more, you have lost chance to gain more. Sighs managed its way in room.

Another window popped again but you were running out of time. The fear of clock ticking gives you almost a panic attack. The device is dying so, either plug it to the life saver or watch it die. The charger had and has only prolonged the inevitable. And if you did make it, will it be worth it to look at blank white screen though?

In the hope thinking that maybe there was something to do; you rushed back to charge, faster than the pit crew itself. But still it remained an enigma if HAPPINESS could not exist on that device, why did you save it? It was full of nothing but a cry of copies of sadness and anxiety. So, why did you do it?

Anusha Pandey

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