Adventure
of a 50 Paisa Coin
It is not
necessary that only human beings have adventures. I am born as a coin and I
have experienced a great adventure with two of my old friends 1 taka and 10
paisa. I was born in a hospital name Bank of Pakistan in 1963. I saw myself
first in a place which was totally dark and suffocating. I saw many other coins
and notes like me beside me. The ceiling opened and one flat peach colored
surface with five sticks in it came down and took me to a hard ground. I saw a
body with two eyes, a nose and a mouth. At its top it had loads of black
strings. Then I discovered that those are called humans.
I looked around the whole place. The place was noisy and warm.
Smoke was all over the place so the view of the room was slightly clear. At one
corner, I noticed a box like thing with lots of motifs in it. It was called
machinery. I saw it printing notes and shaping coins together. If it makes
other coins like me. It must have made me too. That must be god. This place
should be heaven. I was happy to see god. Another man in beards was passing by
and I saw him wearing a red shirt. I thought he was Santa. We all shouted “Hail
Lord Machinery”. Then again that five stick thing took me inside that box. I
felt a bit dizzy so I felt asleep. When I opened my eyes, I saw myself on a
round room with round window. I didn't know that it was a cargo plane. I
thought we are being sent to earth. This is a spaceship. A woman entered the
room and she sprayed a deadly gas at us. I couldn't control myself from sleep
so I felt asleep. The sound of a cash machine woke me up. I saw myself in a
cave like place with a mouth open. I met a 20 taka note and a 10 taka note. The
20 taka note had a photo of an old man with a huge mustache. The 10 taka note
had a face of a woman with beautiful brown hair. I thought they were my parents
so I started treating them as my mom and dad.
The mouth was opened and a hand came and picked me up. I saw a
room with lots of desks. A woman handed me to a man with beards. He took me away.
I thought they were taking me to school. Then I saw a vertical wall with two
big squared holes and a flower vase in one of those holes. It had a big
entrance. Then I realized that those are called houses. I didn't like the
children of the house at all. They tossed me while they were playing a game
called cricket. I thought how can they play with tiny bugs but then I realized
that those are game played with a ball and a wooden body called bat. Even the
children used me while playing carom boards. I had pain in my back the whole
night as their hard fingers kicked me while playing carom boards.
One morning I saw myself on a moving object. I questioned myself
what can this be but still I don’t get it where exactly I was. Then a man took
me inside a locker where I saw millions and millions of coins like me. The
place was hotter than the sun. Some other coins and I tried to break the wall
until it had a crack. At first we were happy but then we realized that the
crack was made by someone else from the other side of the wall. All of a sudden
the door broke out and two men dressed in black jackets and a mask in their
faces came in. Everyone yelled, “yeah robbers.” The robbers opened their bags
and started putting coins inside. We all shouted, “Pick me.” We all pushed
ourselves in the bag and I got deep into the bank with hundreds of other coins
like me. I found a hole from where I could see other coins that couldn't come
with us. I made them angry by making faces at them. The bag was bumping and I
felt asleep. When I opened my eyes, I saw myself in another factory which
looked dangerous. I thought I must have died and now I am in heaven but then I
saw a machine melting coins. I shouted, “Oh god I am in hell. Please god! Don’t
punish me. I will not escape ever in my life. Please!
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