Yesterday, we all woke up to a morning and realised we had lost our emotional bonds. It was such an extraordinary thing to happen in one’s lifetime.
When I first woke up, I didn’t really feel anything, but, after I had got out of my bed, I felt really empty looking into my mom’s face. It was not only me who looked confused. I guess, she also didn’t feel anything looking at her daughter’s face. It was 2-3 awkward minutes, then my father walked in the kitchen yelling what was for the breakfast. My mom realised that she had forgotten the eggs, the eggs she were preparing only for herself. It was the 2nd emotion i saw, first confusion then panicking. I was really used to the emotions due to emotional bonds, but since they were gone, there was no love in my mom’s looks. So were there in my dad’s yelling. It was like 3 strangers living in a house. We didn’t say anything, everybody prepared their own meal, ate and left the table as soon as they had finished. Because it was a saturday, my parents left for work, separately. I felt like my parents were a couple counting days till their divorce court, but a couple who looked for their divorce court, would have hated each other. There would still be an emotional bond.
I was left alone with my thoughts. Firstly, it was really hard to express myself. Then I saw the news, somebody had already figured out what was going on and had expressed it with words really well: there was no emotional bonds.
After I got bored of TV, I checked my phone. None of my friends texted me, except the girl we had a project to do together. There were no emotions in her text, so were there in mine. Out of curiosity, I started to look at news from my phone. One website wrote about thousands of people who were fired. They had only one thing in common: they all were working at a place where the boss was someone they were related to. Since there was no emotional bond, they all have fired people who were more of a disadvantage for the company. I spent my whole day reading the news, I didn’t even realize my parents had come home, had had dinner and the sun had gone down. I had felt pain in my eyes and slept.