PRESERVING THE FLOW: A WATER CONSERVATION CRUSADE
DEFINITIONS
Story: A story is an imagining or a recounting of an event or series of events which can be conveyed through spoken words, written words, or images. This thing happened, which led to this next thing happening, and so on. The basic formula is: character plus goal plus obstacle plus dilemma equals a story.
Tales: It's a traditional story written for children about magical events and imaginary creatures such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches.
Science fiction: A branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology
STORY
Imagine waking up one day to find out that you are in a world similar to yours, yet totally different: a desertic, chaotic world where access to clean water is only a memory of a superior past. This incredulous event happened to me; in fact, this is just the beginning of the story.
Following my arrival to this bizarre world, I heard three ethereal voices coming from the sky:
-“Calm down, human. We are Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. We are the last descendants of an alien species that has been intervening since the beginning of time to help humans.”
-“We have brought you to this future to show you the potential repercussions of human misuse of Earth's water resources,” Lachesis answered.
-Clotho continued, “Now that you are aware of what is coming, I assume you will want to take action, right?”
-Before I could respond, Atropos interjected, “Undoubtedly he does! We need you to carry out a mission to alter the past in order to save the future.”
-I was still struggling to grasp the entirety of the situation, with a million questions racing through my mind. Nevertheless, I somehow managed to keep it together and assured them, "I will help you in safeguarding the future.”
Subsequently, a type of sand began to surround me; then it started forming a tornado that spun faster with each passing second.
When the sand dissipated, I found myself in the Medieval era. There I transmitted my ideas of water conservation to the population and led the first group of ecological activists that cleaned up rivers.
After finishing my mission there, the alien sand took me to the Industrial Revolution. There I could see that my activist group, created centuries ago, had prospered and was now a worldwide organization in favor of water conservation. They prevented the factories from polluting the water. Moreover, they were creating laws against ocean pollution.
At this time, I realized that changing the future required people who cared about water conservation and willing to spread this message to society, as well as people ready to listen and collaborate with this cause.
While I was thinking about this, the alien sand surrounded me one last time; but this time I woke up in my bed, as if my whole adventure had just been a dream. Whether it really happened or not; I decided from that moment on to embrace this water conservation crusade and I believe you should do the same.
This image was created from the characteristics of my story with the help of the getimg.ai application. Prompt: "The 3 Morai of Greek culture as futuristic aliens"
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REFERENCES
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Definition of classic tale and its characteristics. (2020). Juicy English. https://www.juicyenglish.com/blog/characteristics-of-classic-tales
A Conversation with Isaac Asimov on JSTOR. (2023). Jstor.org. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4239795