Daily Prompt: Tunnel Vision
You’ve been given the ability to build a magical tunnel that will quickly and secretly connect your home with the location of your choice — anywhere on Earth. Where’s the other end of your tunnel?
I would be requiring not one, but two tunnels. One to my daughter’s home in Riyadh, and the other one to my my son’s home here in Houston. I will be able to live in Peshawar in my own home. Whenever I feel like visiting one of my children, I will enter the magic tunnel, and whoosh —- I will be siting with one of them.
I won’t be needing passport, visas, air tickets, and the endless traveling. It’s so tiring. My passport still had a year to go, but I renewed my passport here in Houston. It was easier. I didn’t have to go personally to the passport office here. I got a new passport in two weeks time without any hassle.
If I had gone for a passport renewal in Peshawar, it would have taken months despite a hefty urgent fee. The place would have been teeming with men, and a lone woman (like me) would have faced insurmountable difficulties.
Come to think of it, I can utilize a magic tunnel for other purposes: when I need to visit an office for tax, driving license renewal, I phone my brother to come with me. I have to go early to fetch him. It takes an hour. Another hour to come back. After the mission is accomplished, I take him back. Another hour spent, and then back to home. Again another hour. I dread going alone in a sea of men where I stand out like a sore thumb.
Having a magic tunnel to anywhere will be a mercy for me.
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Beautiful post as usual Sheen. A tunnel to visit your son and a tunnel to visit your daughter. Every mother’s dream – to be with her child always.
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It takes a mother to recognize another’s yearnings. Thank you Susie.
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Beautiful post.. All of us, who have family abroad can relate to your wish list and want such a tunnel. My parents are here with me in the US. My brother is here as well.. Summers are exciting times for them as they can see us.. When it’s time to go back home, they keep busy making plans for the trip next year.
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Thank you. The daily prompt does make a person wish for magic.
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Yes, insha’Allah, I wish for this too, my son and daughter are far away from me too, Allah make it easier for us, ya Rabb! ♥♥♥ ;^)
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