The Locket of the Future

There was a certain dread that hit Naia every time she had to travel into the city. The horrid smell the lack of clean air, and of course the people who were running around in their fast-paced lives forgetting to notice the destruction around them. It was as if they were blind to it all or was, she the crazy one. "No way" she said I am not crazy it is definitely them. She never understood how anyone could live there and not lose touch with reality.

Naia was a woman of simpler tastes. She lived in the country far enough from the city so that she could breathe clean air and grow her own crops. She gave meaning to the do it yourselfer. She was not always like this. Believe it or not she used to be so turned off spiritually and mentally that she lived much like the people do in the city. Until one day she had an awakening. This awakening came at a desperate and dark time in her life. Her father had passed away, and it hit her like a train, she felt stuck, like she did not know where to turn or what to do next. She woke up one day and just stepped outside onto her beautiful balcony of her ten-story apartment and took a deep breath in and what happened next changed the course of her life and the course of history forever.

Naia had a vision or something, she could not even explain it. She saw her life from the beginning when she was in her mother’s womb, she saw her own body being formed. She could see the nutrients that were flowing from her mother to her, but it was as if some of it was dark like the nutrients were not nutritious at all as if it was black tar. As the vision went on, she saw the affects the pollutants from the air, the water, the medicines that were supposed to help us and most everything that was going into her body. Naia could see the havoc it was wreaking on her body from the inside. She saw the government and people we all believe to trust scheming and plotting what to make next to further our bodies destruction. Naia thought she was having a nightmare at first, but it was all too real, the feelings she had within her body were one hundred percent real. She knew then she needed to change her entire life.

Naia sold everything and started over in the middle of nowhere. She vowed then and there that she would grow everything and make everything she used or put into her body. Turns out it was no easy feat she had taken on. Took her many failures but she eventually had her own little oasis, no smog from all the factories and cars, no angry people screaming at one another. Just clean open fields of crisp air, cool breezes, birds chirping, and nothing that held you to time. She never realized what true freedom and health was until she brought herself out here. She did have to still travel to the city for some things, but she dreaded it when it came that time.

Today was her day to travel to the city she took the same route on her bike as she always did. This time though something felt different. As she was traveling along a grassy path that led to the main road, she saw something shiny, of course she stopped thinking it was trash. She always liked to pick up trash when she saw it. This though was not trash at all, as she picked it up, she realized this wasn't trash at all but a gold heart shaped locket. Naia just stopped and held this locket in her hand for a moment and it was as if she could almost feel an energy flowing through it. It was like nothing she had ever felt before. Her curiosity peaked she decided to open it. What happened next was not of this world. Or was it? As she opened the locket the world around her seemed to burn away like movie screen being burned. She felt horror and pain she saw the grass and trees on fire, the animals crying for help, but worse she heard the cries of people begging for help. It was horrifying and so real. She could feel the heat from the flames, her ears burned with the sound of death and pain. The city was an even more terrifying site. People were robbing each other, killing one another it was an all-out war for your life. She closed the locket and just like that the horror disappeared.

What was this locket she had found? Was it witchcraft, or a way of seeing the future? Naia asked herself "why me, why did I stumble across this"? She was so wrecked with nerves that she turned around and went home. Naia could not imagine opening that locket again so she buried it on her land so that no one else would have to feel its pain.

Life went on for Naia days passed to months and months to years. She still could not shake that feeling of death and destruction of the world and people around her. This year had been different, her crops were not growing well, her flowers and plants seemed less full of vibrancy and life, and her trips to the city seemed to get more dangerous each time she went. Naia had been ignoring signs, and her gut feeling for years now. She did not want what the locket showed her to be true. Little by little it was all happening though. She was not ready, what could she even do to stop the destruction?

More years passed. One fateful morning a storm blew in bringing rain like a monsoon, thunder like the Gods were stomping their feet. It was a wakeup call, one Naia needed. She walked out onto her front porch only to find that the storm had unearthed something she had hidden away. The locket was there right at her feet. She dropped to her knees with tears running down her face knowing that she could ignore her worlds fate no more. She knew the city is where she would start. She travelled into the city only to find that the destruction and fires had begun. She was screaming at people trying to help them, but no one would listen. Was she too late? She went to tv station and begged to be put on screen she was explaining how to fix our world and our people, but they called her crazy and threw her out. She went to government official's offices with no avail. She was trying everything, but it seemed this world she had feared so much was the new reality. What would she do next? Will the world of fire, death and destruction be forever, or will she find a way to heal our world and its people?