Aura Perpetua

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Dear Father,

My muse had returned, and I decided to write again. This time around, I'm posting it in the Internet for all to see, and critique as well. I'm not a very good writer, and my English grammar is poor, but I try to make up for it along the way. I hope you appreciate it as well.

If you have a little spare time, please drop by my blog-novel: Aura Perpetua and let me know what you think. It would be a really big thing for me too, to know if you like it or not.

Yours truly,
Jerusha Abbott.

Prisoner of Time

What would you to if you can travel through time?

Dear Father,

The Holidays had been a happy and busy event. Mama and I spent a lot of time together and just enjoyed the one and a half week break I got from work. It felt really nice because this time around, I was the one who was giving, and that the money I used to give was from my hard work. We were able to enjoy a great Noche Buena composed of a Roast Chicken Meal c/o Kenny Rogers' Roasters, some hot chicken soup prepared by Mama, Buko Salad c/o yours truly, some fresh fruits, and of course, Christmas Ham. It made me extra happy to finally have ham on the table again.

There were lots of food, most of which came from my Aunt and her family. So much that we were still eating the leftovers even after Christmas and New Year. There were also visits from my two male cousins (both of whom have their own families), and a lot of noise from my naughty nieces and nephews. We also made house visits to several of Mama's friends and gave them gifts. It feels really good to be the one giving the gifts. I only got a few gifts in return, and Mama was able to come up with a card for me this Christmas. It felt kinda nostalgic, since I've been giving her greeting cards as gifts for years now. But I love it anyway.

I checked my mailbox every now and then, but it seemed that you forgot to send a card this year again.

Though things had been pretty busy and messy this past weeks, I still managed to find time to curl up with a good book and float away into wonderland. A good friend of mine lent me her book (the one our team gave her for Christmas) entitled "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. Basically, its about a man named Henry deTamble who suffers from Chrono-Displacement Disorder, enabling him to travel through time, either past or future. In the middle of all the complex situations this disorder had lead him, he manages to meet his wife, Claire, when she was still 6. Claire moves through time normally, and ends up looking forward to Henry's visits, knowing more and more about him in the process. The book is about the unfolding of their life together in their strange mixed up chronology while Henry tries to find a cure for his disorder.

The book was well written that you'd just believe that a man like Henry would suddenly pop in out of nowhere and introduce himself as a time-traveler. But the best part for me was around the end of the book. Henry goes forward in time and meets his daughter, Alba, for the first time (at the present time, Alba wasn't born yet.) He found out that Alba was a Chrono-Displaced Person like him and could travel back and forth in time. Alba was delighted to meet her father, but before he could spend some time with her, Henry was pulled back to the present time.

Later on in the story, Alba and Henry would meet in the past and spend some time together. So in a way, even if the present Henry had passed away, he was able to see his daughter and watch her grow.

The Time-Traveler's Wife is a really sweet love story. It made me think about what I would do if I could go back in time, but not really change it. What about you, Father? If you were given the same gift/curse that Henry has, what would you change? Would you go back to the past and change everything? Or would you visit the future and see how much I have grown?

I guess I'd never know.

Your daughter, in her 21-year old self.