My wildest dream
By Rohit Kumar
(Written by this 11 year old boy in December 2001)
Once I had a dream. It was one of the wildest dreams I ever had in my entire life. As I was walking through an enchanting garden, I found an ancient artifact. I brought it home and upon examining it found that it was an ancient key. My brother told me that it was really precious. So, upon his advice, I took it to a pawn shop in Houston, that specialized in artifacts. I sold it to them and got a trillion dollars. I did not know what to do with all this money. So, the first thing I did was to buy a 10,000 GH computer. I also bought many mansions, one for my dad, another for my mom, and a third one for my brother, Rahul. Finally for myself I bought the most expensive and exquisite mansion which had coke fountains everywhere.
Still I was left with billions and billions of dollars in my many bank accounts. The banks could not handle the huge deposits in my name. They had to modify their computer programs that accounted for the deposits. These computer programs were assuming that the maximum anyone would deposit would be ten billion dollars into one account. But I deposited hundred billion dollars into just one account.
So, I decided I'd pay every poor person who came to my door $100 each. For friends, I 'd give $100,000 each and I also sent 1,000,000 converted dollars to India to help my poor relatives.
I still had billions of dollars left. So, I sort of got crazy. I started throwing $100 bills onto the streets and threw $1,000 bills from buildings. I'd pay a kidnapper $1,000,000 so he would stop his nasty habit of kidnapping. I'd pay $10,000 to a good artist to make a monument of me. I'd hide 5,000 dollars with fine perfume scent to see if anyone can follow the scent. I'd throw $1,000 into a sewer hole to see if anyone goes to the hole to find it.
My mother told me that if I continued my new found habit of throwing money in the sewer I would soon become poor and would have to beg people for food. So, I transferred all my billions of dollars into my mom's and dad's bank accounts so they could manage it well. For my little expenses, I kept just ten million dollars.
My dream then suddenly ended and I found myself lying in my little bed in my little house which is not worth even one million dollars. I wished that my dream was really true, but I wish that this dream would come true someday!
** The End **