A letter from a future net

A letter from a future net
P K Routray

A letter written in twenty second century found surprisingly in net,
Perhaps it defeated the laws of time that science could upset.
A great grandson wrote this letter at his age of forty
to his great grandfather for answering his queries born out of curiosity.
His great grandfather was born in first decade of the twenty-second century,
he was born fifty years later after staying a part in mother’s womb and part in laboratory.
He knows his ancestral details from the service of the net,
He left this letter in the net for his grandfather great.
“Hi! I saw the length of life of our clan dwindling from generation to generation,
Hairs, teeth, power of spec have undergone colossal degradation.
I observed, family’s sources of income have changed from farming to mixed professions,
which include service, business and industries and other vocations.
But now we have mainly two job opportunities one in medicine and medication another is in desalination,
as to survive we need continuous medical aid and water from sea and sewerage after decantation.
I see air water were free for you during your time,
But now they are rationed materials with cost and cause many a crime.
The air has become scarce and polluted we use bottles of filtered air of different grades,
Our dresses are designed on individual basis to accommodate the life sustaining aids,
We see the picture and read about coal and oil during your time with much ado,
it is like fairy tales to us we doubt whether it was true.
We knew you had light in night and walk miles to play with friends with fun and sweat,
It looks to us as a grand mama story, and comparing our life with you, we feel upset.
We are yet to understand the benefits of outdoor and indoor games,
we feel the game will demand more oxygen and water and will call for social blames.
we play over communication net work without sweat from brow,,
Definitely we are superior to you in this respect because of technology which we only know.,
We take pity on you for suffering from cancer and Aids which were fatal to you,
With invention, they are controlled but we have many more incurable and new.
We heard you met your wife daily and lived with her in the same cottage,
but I have not seen my wife in flesh and blood till date before and after marriage.
How did you live with birds, animals and trees without mortal fear?
we apprehend infection and physical injury from them if we come near.
How did you control to equal number of girls with boys?
To keep balance we have many difficulties even if we try all the invented ways.
Why did you laugh and how did you laugh, what methods did you try?
We heard you had emotions that made you laugh and cry.
We saw your arts and poems and we feel you had enough idle time for such penance,
we cannot spare a moment to stare even at our shadow in our struggle for existence.
I have skin cancer which is irritating me very often,
but with heavy dose of continual injection its effects I am able to soften.
Docters tell I shall live for another five years,
I shall die at forty five against seventy five of yours.
I have purchased a land in moon and am trying to book a house in Mars also,
But I have not seen my only son, heard that he will be in the incubator for another week or so.”