Brussels, 25 March 2220
It has just been announced on TV News that the last person of the “Spring 2020” generation has died at the age of 200. Human beings are in turmoil on planet Earth and its three satellitle planets as a result, and tributes are coming in thick and fast on screens all over the world.
During the famous Spring of 2020, for the first time in history all humans experienced the same upheaval, exactly at the same time. As a result, they turned everything upside down, changed everything. What a generation that was! It is thanks to them that we now live so long and so well, and that we feel so much fullfilled. They lived through a major health crisis that turned into a revolution, an emotional revolution, one that the human race precisely needed at the time.
They suffered some hard times, with everyone confined at home as a result of a silly little virus, a tiny microorganism whose size is measured in billionths of a meter. What happened to the virus? It’s all over now. Thanks to international medical cooperation, the human race developed a universal vaccine against all viruses. The viruses can mutate as much as they like, but we are now immune to them from the day we are born. Yes, it was the “Spring” generation that led to the creation of the International Medicine and Well-Being Agency. They also worked on the well-being of healthcare personnel, not only increasing their salaries five times but also increasing their number five-fold in all care centres. Quite frankly, I don’t know how they managed before, one is tempted to think that they didn’t have much grey matter!
This emotional revolution (انقلاب عاطفی) affected everyone enormously. They also worked on the education system. Did you know that, before the “Spring” generation came along, children did not learn anything at school about things like gardening, baking, or first aid? Five years after the crisis, the World Education Agency set up a system in which children all over the world started to learn specific skills applicable to their daily lives, and also personal skills that would help them throughout their entire life. A great upheaval was needed for humans to understand that they really needed to learn how to manage their conflicts in a positive way, to learn how to work together, to express their emotions, to live in harmony with their essential values. Yes, the work done by that generation was extraordinary, huge, and that is why we now live so long and so well.
The “Spring” generation was also compelled to create an authentic World Government, which has since become our “Interstellar Body”. The World Government decreed the total prohibition of arms sales for wars on Earth, with enormous fines for offenders. This is why weapons factories now only manufacture arms for defence and civil protection, and why all the money that was previously spent on wars has been redirected towards the well-being of the human race. One wonders how they lived before, indeed, it really does seem that their brains were empty!
Tributes continue to pour in on screens across planet Earth and its three satellite planets, and the emotional revolution has only just begun.
Azita Rahimpoor (text and photo)
Brussels, 25 March 2020
Translation from French by David Griffiths