Well hello everyone, i'm Safrina Putri Indira i'm from 1 waru senior high school and today

i'm going to tell you a story that tittled the future of the present and it's written by Malini
Venkataraman

The Future of The Present Written by: Malini Venkataraman

It was a sunny Sunday noon. Pinky and Chotu were getting bored. They had watched enough
of television and had finished their homeworks too. Just then Chotu remembered about his
remote control car that he bought years ago. He quickly ran to the storage room and looked
for his car. Pinky also followed him and joined in the search. As they were looking for the
car, Pinky found a dusty and rusty old thing which resembled the remote of Chotu’s car.

“Chotu! look what I found!” “Doesn’t this look like my car’s remote? But wait, this looks
strange. Why are these tiny buttons here?” “Wait Chotu! Don’t do anything! Let’s take it to
dad and show him,” said Pinky. “I wonder what happens if I press this.....” said Chotu,
touching the button. “Don’t......!!!!!!” shouted Pinky warily. Too late! Chotu jabbed the
button with his finger. They both felt dizzy! The only thing they saw now was black, and
green, and black, and green..... Their heads swirled, and they fainted instantly, only to regain
consciousness when sharp piercing rays of sun hit their eyes. Rubbing their eyes, they were
surprised to look at their surroundings.

They were very new to them. No wonder – it was because they were in a completely new
place! “Hmm...What place is this Pinky?” Chotu looked around curiously,” and “w...h...a...t
is this?” They saw a big steel castle with strange machines sticking out. The two of them
stood in front of the massive doors – green, blue and red in color. They didn’t know which
door to enter. They chose the blue door. The door opened up to a vast deserted land. The
place was so empty. No sign of people, it was all deserted, and the trees were hardly visible.
There were only some tall thorny bushes. They stepped inside the door. “How terrible!”
Chotu said to Pinky, “there’s no greenery here at all! I wonder what place is this. Where have
we come?” When Pinky turned her head, she saw a huge shadow cast over them. “
A....a........a...... M.....O........N......N....S....S.....T..T....E......R....R...!!” shouted Chotu. Both
froze in terror for a second, and then started to run! The monster chased them in whatever
direction they ran.

Soon both of them were so tired that they couldn’t move any more. Panting and breathing
heavily, they stood in front of the monster, helpless. They looked closely at it and saw that it
was made of junk, electronic waste and all kinds of garbage.... And....it stank “YUCK!”
“Please don’t do anything to us”, begged Pinky. “Ha..Ha..Ha...” laughed the monster loudly,
“I am the GARBAGE monster! And I was created by you – the humans. You dumped all
your waste on the earth, polluted its beauty, threw electronic waste, cut down trees and
created your own concrete jungles. And Here I am, as the result of all your reckless behavior
and carelessness.” Both of them were speechless and bowed down their heads in shame.
There was complete silence for a while. “Yes!” stammered Chotu “We are ashamed of our
behavior. And now we realize the effect of our actions and irresponsibility. And our failure to
save the earth.” “Please leave us and let us go.
We will see to it that hereafter everyone takes care of our environment and be responsible
citizens.” said Pinky. “That is not enough! How do I believe you selfish humans!“ said the
monster. “Please believe us; we won’t exploit our nature anymore. We have seen the effect of
our actions. We have seen the state of the earth in future, if we continue to exploit earth,”
both begged in chorus.

As both of them were speaking to the monster, a strong air blew and pulled both of them back
to their room. Rubbing their eyes, Chotu and Pinky realized that they had actually travelled
ahead in time. What they had witnessed was the state of earth if humans did not protect the
environment from pollution and dumping waste. “Phewwww!” said Chotu, wiping sweat and
coming back to reality. “Wasn’t that very scary Chotu?” “Of course! We should do
something on our part to save our earth.” “I have an idea! Why don’t we take a pledge to help
protect our environment?” “That’s a great idea Pinky!” They both quickly sat with a pen and
paper and started writing their pledge.

Then they stood in front of their favorite Ganesha and read aloud their pledge. “We, Pinky
and Chotu hereby pledge from this moment on, to help save our earth by:
1. Not using plastic carry bags.
2. Not littering our surroundings.
3. Planting trees and help make our surroundings greener and cleaner.
4. Not wasting water and trying to save it.
5. Using only eco-friendly goods.
Insisting our friends and relatives to follow these methods to save our earth and make it
cleaner, greener and safer.” They ran to their friends to tell about their experience and spread
their wonderful pledge.

So the moral of the story is. Every action we do in life has its consequences, even if we can't
feel the effects right now, doesn't mean that it won't come in the near future, because the
climate Clock is ticking. Researchers said we only have 7 years to make changes before the
effects of climate change becomes irreversible. So let's not disappoint our children and start
making action right now. We all can find small ways to be more eco friendly, so always
remember every action matters. I'm safrina and thank you so much for listening