My Story Version (Jack's Journey to the City)

 Jack's Journey to the City

Far away from the city, near the coast, there was a middle-aged man named Jake. Jake had always lived near the coast and never visited the city.

                One day, when the weather is good. He decided to check online to see if there was any bus that was going to the city. Recently, Jake has been feeling lonely and bored so he wants to find a way to change that. When he had checked online, there was no bus coming to him till a week later, so he advised a plan. He will instead drive to the city where the zoo was with his car instead of taking the bus. He packed his stuff, booked a hotel, got into his car, turn on the engine, and set off into the distance. But little did he know it wouldn’t be this easy and going to the zoo wouldn’t be the only place he would be going too…

                His phone map application showed that it may take a few days for him to reach the city. This is why he decided to book a hotel half way there so he can get some rest. Everything was soothing until something tragic had happened. While he was driving, there were some rocks in the road that he hadn’t seen. These rocks would have been fine as he could have just gone over them but there was something hiding beside those rocks that he would have never expected. Behind the rocks were spiky rusted metal that had been left there by accident. Because of this, he heard something pop loudly and so he stopped his car and checked to see what had happened. He realised his tire had popped! This annoyed him a lot because he had thought everything would go accordingly to plan. Luckily, only one of them had popped instead of multiple. This made it easier for him to start driving again. He brought out the tools he had stored in his car if anything like this had happened and in just an hour, he was back driving super-fast on the road.

                Jack started top feel tired as he had already been driving hours and hours on end, but he started to feel relived as his hotel was starting to get nearer. It would only take about an hour left till he arrived to his hotel, and to treat himself, he decided to get a fancy hotel but it was hard finding one in the middle of nowhere. Once he had arrived to the hotel, it was like heaven for him as he could finally eat and sleep after hours of driving. He ate some fancy food on a super soft bed which Jake described it as like “Sleeping on Clouds.”

                A new day, a new me as he said after he took a great nap in the fancy hotel. He decided to go down to eat breakfast before driving again, so he gobbled up at the all you can eat buffet and left the hotel sad as he now had to drive for hours and hours again. He started driving and everything went well until… his phone ran out of battery. This doesn’t seem like a big deal, but the problem was that he didn’t bring a charger to charge his phone. This was a big deal for him as he hadn’t memorized the map fully and only till a shop to eat which he would arrive in a few hours. He felt anxious all the way to the shop but he felt determine for this to not stop him. Just a piece of electronic wasn’t going to stop his determination. Until… he forgot the way so he had to stop at a park trying to find a person with a charger that he could borrow. This took him nearly an hour to find someone as this park was in the middle of nowhere and the charging took a while as well. He thanked the stranger and he continued on his journey till he arrived to the shop. He picked a lot of things to eat. This took him about 2 hours to do as he is a very picky eater and will only eat certain things that he finds interesting or yummy. Once he arrived back to his car, it had already past 4pm, so he decided to eat as he hasn’t eaten lunch yet. He then started to drive again till he arrives to his next hotel to eat his dinner, although the next hotel wouldn’t be as luxurious as his previous one. This hotel he booked was more of a motel.

                Once he arrived to his motel, he realised that the stand was closed to get his keys to his room. Luckily, the woman who was running the stall realised Jake and helped him out to get his keys without a problem. Jake got his room and the room had a weird small. He wasn’t sure if this was because his room just got cleaned or that it was something weird. He opened his bed and found some stains on it. It looked so disgusting; Jake almost threw up. Jake realised the stains on the bed weren’t stains, but the shadows. This relived him and he got ready to sleep but once he got on the bed, the bed was hard in the middle so he decided to sleep on the edge of the bed as it had more cushion there making it more comfortable.

In the morning, when he woke up, he was excited as he had only 1 more driving session to do till, he had arrived to the city. During this time, he had made extra plans that he wanted to do in the city as he just didn’t want to go to the zoo and come back and waste all his time. He realised that this was much harder than he had precipitated in the first place. He ate his breakfast, did his daily routine, got in the car and started driving. The rest of the trip would take him an extra 6 hours, which compared to how long he drove the past 2 sessions, wasn’t a lot of time. His previous driving sessions took him about 15 hours each, so the total time he had been driving would be a total of 36 hours, or 1 and a half days, which basically equals to him driving half of the day, every day or 12 hours a day. He was joyful this entire 6 hours as he was listening to some podcast while driving about what to do in the city he was travelling too.

It was only about an hour left till he had arrived to the city, but there was a slight issue, his fuel was running out. His fuel tank was almost about to go out and the nearest gas station was much farther than what his fuel could get to. He decided to advise a plan that he had heard on the podcast he had been listening too. The podcast said something about a way to save fuel to go farther with less fuel. This was going to take him 3 times longer than the usual 1 hour left due to him having to go much slower. After 2 hours, this actually might work as he hasn’t run out of fuel and he was almost there. As he arrived to the gas station, his car finally ran out of fuel and stop commissioning which was perfect timing. He refueled his tank and started to drive as fast as he can to get their faster as he had wasted so much time that he could have saved.

Once he had arrived to the city, it was an amazing sight to see, as he could see so much things that he had never thought existed. Big malls, hotels, houses, restaurants, shops, fancy cars, and much more. This excited him even more as he had saved up a lot of money the past years. He had been working an above average payment so he had a lot of money to spend as he also had a lot of money in his savings so he can make money while doing nothing by getting interest rates. The last time he had ever gone to the city was when he was born. He revisited the Hospital where he was born and got flashbacks. He went to the malls and had a lot of fun going to arcades, shops, restaurants and more. He ate tons of yummy food that he had never experienced eating before and he bought tons of new clothes that he could wear to feel more modern and actually cool, he had tons of fun playing in the arcade and getting prizes. He went to his hotel and realised that he may try to get a job in the city so he can stay here and keep having fun instead of having to go back to his previous job and house and always having to stay lonely. The only times where he didn’t feel lonely back in his coast house job is when visitors would come or some people would work with him but they didn’t last a while as they found it boring and depressing.

He decided to start filing some Job application that pay very well and can make him a above average living style but he didn’t have much skill till he found one that he was obsessed with, building. He found a job that you can make a lot of money by building things or an engineer. In his coast job, he made machines that can be used to get oil, fishes, etc, so this job would be nearly perfect for him. He signed up and after the people looked closely on his previous jobs, they instantly accepted as they needed a person just like him to create stuff. This job would also be a higher paying job than his coast job, so not just will he do the same amount of stuff than what he would usually do, he would also be in the city with tons of things to do and meet his family in the city after he realised, they were living not too far where he was working at. Everything was going well for him and so that’s where he left off his journey. He continued working in his engineering job and started to visit his family and cousins. He met some friends when he was working and had tons of fun.

He went from just having a dream to go outside of his working coast area, to the city which was thousands of miles away just to go to the zoo and make some friends, so now getting a job, owning a house, visiting his family and relatives, getting friends, and having a great life now. From a tiny idea to a huge dream in just a few weeks.

 

This story is a not a true story, this is just a fiction story of a man that I imagined of getting his life together and having a great life. From a boring to a fun life. This is also my dream on what I want to do. I want to create stuff like an engineer or be an architecture who also make stuff like buildings. Ok anyways I want to get 2000 words so I have to write about 100 extra words. The reason why I like to go and create stuff is because I don’t want to pay for extra fees where people have to design it for me, but also that I want to be able to design stuff that I can think of. I’m not very good at explaining stuff, so when I tell other people to create stuff, it’s hard for them to imagine what I’m thinking about. So, if I can create it, I can make an exact replica as I am thinking about it. I don’t think that makes much sense but that makes enough sense. Ok thank you for reading my text and goodbye.

 

Extension Challenge

Mine

After Jake got his life together, he decided to get into real estate. He became a successful business man and got into philosophy. He started many charity events and donated a lot of money.

After a while being a wealthy man, buying tons of expensive and unique stuff, he soon realised that the rich life wasn’t the way. He realised that even though he had all these expensive stuffs, they never benefited him in any positive way. He just became more arrogant and cockier with his decisions. He became depressed and bored after all this stuff.

Eventually, he felt that it was enough. He decided to give out all his wealth to charity, got a loving girlfriend, and lived back to the regular life. Now he has finally accompanied with someone else that is loving. He feels much happier and since he’s retired with still a good amount of wealth in his savings, he can visit his family and travel the world. Jake then lives happily ever after.

At the end of the day, Jake realised that being wealthy wasn’t the way to happiness in life. It may have made his life much easier and no one can deny that, but that didn’t make him happy as he was always busy and tired after working. That’s why at the end of the story, he resorted to quitting his job and retiring, to pursue having a family, visiting family, and actually having fun in a while instead of being depressed, tired, and bored.