• Flying cars, soaring high buildings, robots that do your work. Myths. These are what people tell you. Think about this: If there isn’t enough energy to power up today’s world, how do you expect to power up the future? Let me tell you about the real future. You might not agree with what I have to say, but I have experienced the future.

    The human race has disappeared, vanished. They have been destroyed by exploding power plants, fires, and lightning. Homeless inhabitants died out of hunger, bad weather, or bugs. The only species whom survived were dogs, bugs, monkeys, and farm animals. Mostly bugs, roaming around with diseases. I am the only human who has survived, and I can say that no robots or aliens destroyed the human race.

    If you are standing in the streets of Manhattan, it’s in pretty bad shape. Newspapers on the ground. Spilled cups of Dunkin Donuts coffee. And a briefcase, opened, exposing classified documents of Wall Street. The Brooklyn Bridge waterfall doesn’t work and the water is filled with bacteria and algae. These waters would be a danger to any living species.

    What about trees? Burned down to the roots. Ashes, lots of ashes cover the warm soil, in which humans used to walk on. If I came in contact with any creature now, it would be a threat to me. Because creatures now carry diseases, deadly diseases. I didn’t see any other humans, for I am the last one.

    What’s it like being all alone in this cold, brutal planet. Lonely. No one can anymore comfort you of the darkness. No one can answer the millions of questions you carry right now. There is no one, but you. The animals only have two more hours to live. I have two days. Only two days. And yet I haven’t experienced everything in life. This is my ending, but it’s Earth’s new beginning.

    Twelve hours have passed ever since the erase of the human race. I still walk all alone on the streets that were once crowded with millions of New Yorkers. When the streets were crowded, I hated it. I hated crowded streets. And now, I wish that everyone was back, and the streets would be filled with all the people in the world, and I wouldn’t complain. I was left alone to die. But how would I die? By breathing in the hazardous oxygen that fills the atmosphere. Its global warming. We knew it would affect us, but did we do anything at all? Some of us. Not all.

    Twenty four hours have passed. I didn’t sleep at all. The night was dark, so dark, I felt beyond blind. It was perhaps the darkest night of my life. And now, there were no animals or creatures of any sort in sight. The water was polluted and the food was destroyed. Another reason I would die: hunger.

    I still couldn’t believe how it happened. It was two second and everyone was gone. That is, everyone except me. I started to wish that I was also wiped out, so I wouldn’t have to experience this vile loneliness. I only had twenty four hours and there was no way to make the best of it. The air was gray and everything was blurry and fading away. I don’t think I had twenty four hours anymore because I wasn’t on Earth. I was gone too. I was in another place now. Everything was blurry and on the other end was the light. I had to walk towards it.