Nothing could be compared to the emotions I felt when I walked my granddaughter’s great-granddaughter down the aisle. It turned out just as beautiful as it was planned to be. Erica did a good job, I must confess.
On January 1, 2015 nature took its course. I slept and never woke up, I was aged 97. This happened over three hundred years ago. Why does everything in life happen so fast? One time I was a fresh-faced restless kid born in the early twentieth century, who had developed a huge interest to explore the outer space, the next thing I soon became weary with wrinkles and ugly laugh lines.
I do remember walking my first daughter Nonye down the aisle. Yes, I do, that was in 1969, June 8 to be precise, and that of my granddaughter Nne, twenty five years after. Back when it was not ‘odd’ to have the bride wear a typical white wedding dress. Old times.
To be honest, I barely understood the speech made by the android-groom’s mother. I’m quite sure she spoke English but it sounded gibberish, or maybe I was mesmerized by how human she was designed to look!
‘Jeff is my planet! Above the stars and the finest plastics ever’ Mma often said ‘It is the perfect android-husband material for me’. I watched as the wedding planner designed and programmed it. It was perfect. Jeff was the most polite android I had ever met. Again, I must confess. Erica did a good job.
‘You stare a lot, don’t you?’
Who from the blast of the twenty first century wouldn’t?, I thought. Wacko spacesuits and weird haircuts; space hovercrafts and supercars traveling faster than the speed of light!
I looked up. It was one of the space attendants.
She swayed herself around on her flying hoverboard to the rhythm of the music played in the background.
‘How was life back then?’
She leaned forward, wanting to start a conversation.
‘Hum, I was old. I died fifteen years after it begun’
Immediately, I regretted my words
‘It was undeniably the computer age’
‘Welcome to the future’ She said taking a delicate sip of her iridescent drink
‘I’m sure you would be remembered’
‘Ye-es, yes! I was the first African to be cryonically preserved!’
‘Did you at that time develop any fear about the procedure?’
‘No’
‘No?. Then what was your true fear?’
‘Teenagers’
‘…and now?’
‘Teenagers!’
Everyone bust out laughing.
“Jeff is my planet! Above the stars and the finest plastics ever” Mma often said.
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