The Longest Minute I Ever Spent

In case you don’t know me, I am a sixteen years old female student of my school which is Jubilee Christian Academy, daughter of my dad and mom whose names are Tennyson and Gloria, and sister of my brothers who are Melvin, Byron, and Ivan. I started to exist on the eleventh day of April 1988 in the Makati Medical Center. I have eyes which can be compared to that of an owl and teeth which can be compared to that of a rabbit. I grew up in a world full of love and care. I never felt that that time is too long for everything except in one thing.

That thing that I was talking about actually just took a minute, a minute that we could have spent so easily if we are not aware of. It looked so long because it made me feel that every second was like a minute. It happened in a three by four square meters room covered with pink tiles.

“Patience…patience…patience…it will only take one minute…”

The place I want to get into was not vacant so I tried to keep the object inside my body. Thirty seconds was enough already to stop it from going out but there was still another thirty seconds. I wanted to open the door if I could. At last! The person came out and saw me standing in front of him. I immediately went in and got what I want.

“Success!”

I got up from the toilet bowl in the comfort room.