Storytelling 4 | The Refrigerator for Memories

Story based on an item

Have you ever thought about turning back time? There should be some happy moments in the past that you want go back and have it  all again.

It was 2099, Dr. Sushi invited me to his laboratory in Japan. He has made a refrigerator to store human memories. These memories will be retrieved from human brain, and transferred to some chocolate cubes, which will then be kept in his new product, the refrigerator of human memories. I was invited by him for a purpose, to be his 'laboratory mice'.

The chocolate cubes being used were made of edible gold which are of high costs. These cubes can store human memories, mainly feelings. Each cube can store human memories of about a day. When you want to go back to a particular moment in the past, you can just eat the chocolate cubes with memories saved. It will bring you back to the time as you desired.

I have picked 3 sets of memories to be saved and to be experienced again.

1. The day when I was born. I want to feel the purest joy at home, where all my family members celebrated for their newly born member. This happiness faded over time, when the baby started to grow up, became rebellious and finally left the family to pursue his dreams.

2. The first love that I met. It was the greatest gift that you will never have it again in your life. Innocent, true, pure and unselfish…

3. The moment when I lost my life. It was silly to go back to a sad moment but I want to take it as a chance to refresh myself about the place where I fell, and I will never repeat the mistake again.

The chocolate cubes were working. I was brought back into the memories. However, the feelings were different.

As time goes by, we learned and we grow at the same time. The perception that we hold towards things in life changes over time. Something that you feel extremely important in the past might not be as important right now. There is no point to turn back time. Why don't we look forward to the future and move on?

At the end of the experiment with Dr. Sushi, I told him that the chocolate cubes failed to work. Hence, the launching of the refrigerator was not successful.