The Journal

"Have you ever found something that changed your life, the way you normally live and the way you actually think? These things are inevitably existing in all of our lives. People just look at things as commonly as it can be making it a background object blurred from the focus. Take for example a person just passing by across the street. That's someone you know or not and you won't know until you've actually looked closely. There are also people who we may think we know but we actually don't and there are these who we feel like we do know them even if we actually don't."

As I walk up to my room for a rest, I stumbled a upon a serious quest... cleaning it.

It was dusty, not rusty. I tried to fix and clean everything up by myself but it seems to be a little bit too good to be true. Like everyone else, I found something interesting while I was sorting out my stuffs. It was a journal. I did not realize whose journal that was and it stayed that way. Having our new house built from my dad's insurance money, I would not think that a strange object could exist. Although, the place I'm living in is quite solemn.

This was previously a very wide rice field but is abandoned due to its depletion of the nutrients deep down the soil. Now, a small 2-storey house is in the middle of it. Alone.

The best part is, there are no neighbors to get annoyed at.

Anyway, back to this journal that I found. To describe it being pretty old would be an insult... to a teenager.

It was an average-sized hardbound square notebook but quite interestingly, I cannot open it. Like some wizard cast a spell on it. "Only to be opened by the worthy". And I'm not worthy. But that's just what I thought until one evening, or dawn. I stumbled upon it once again in different circumstances. It was midnight went I went up to my room and was planning to go to bed. I only had my phone to light up the way but it clearly did not do its job as I bumped the stack of notebooks on my mini desk. So I decided to turn the light up. Looking at the scattered notebooks, I realized that the stubborn journal I was trying to open finally opened.

Right away, I picked it up and tried to read the first few pages. With font sizes super small, it is really hard to read. Imagine having your web browser at 25% zoom, it would cost your eyesight. I only got to read the first few paragraphs saying that the journal opens at its own will, and saw the other page having a strange symbol. It shows a bird standing on a wire. It was vague since it's like a silhouette... and it all happened so fast that after a few seconds, the journal closed on its own. 'slam fx'

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