What if I was part of Interstellar — the movie?
What made me do this?
Ad-mist the COVID-19, Quarantine days I fell into the magical world of HANS ZIMMER through one of my friends, who praised his works as a masterpiece. This made me hear the soundtracks of Interstellar “STAY” & “TIME” from Inception in repeat mode continuously for a week, making me watch those movies once again. One thing which shook me was the concept of a father meeting his daughter after a long time when she is older than him. This made me think, what would my life be if my father left for space when I was 12 and while returning, we were almost the same age? And here one can’t find anything related to endurance, neuron star, or the difference between a wormhole and black hole. It is just me being “Murphy” & my father being “Cooper”. For your information, my father is a professional driver so does cooper, although there is a slight variation in the vehicle they drove!
Me Vs Him:
To start, I was born when my dad was 40. So actually we share a 4-decade difference which recorded a ton of Political, cultural & religious changes. By saying so, we never stood on a single common point. We always disliked each other’s opinions, views, decisions. But since we love each other so much, we tend to give up. Although we were not ok with the other’s view, desire, opinion we would just sacrifice it just to make the other happy. For example, I being leftist and him being rightist suppose if we met with an argument several times which would end mostly by someone giving it up to make the others view the best. And the far most quality which he has and I lack is he is very punctual and I guess I don’t remember when the last time I was punctual. I often think, maybe the age difference between — the only factor for our differences.
By having much difference, we share similar characters in most events. Some of them are hunger management, angry management, dedication towards work, and so on.
What would life be?
As shown in the movie, if he had left for space when I was 12, the whole responsibility of the family would be in my shoulders. I would have been more matured to handle such kinds of stuff. From handling Provisionals to assets, everything would be on my head. I would be the person responsible for taking care of all my sister’s marriage and their after marriage chaos. During this process, I might have crushed my ego at a very early age and would have developed good anger management skills. Would have known the value of money and its savings at a tender age. My decision-making skills would have been more precise. And the most important thing must be I should’ve been more careful, mindful with people around be. This might have saved the time and money I lost without being much careful.
How would I be as a person?
As a person, I would have been more traditional (Rightist) because I would be dependent and worried about the people around me. I wish I could be the same treating everyone similar, irrespective of their gender, position but how they are as a person. And most importantly, I would’ve followed my father’s practice of feeding the hunger. Whether it may be a man or an animal, no one should die in hunger. The skill which I admire more from him and I lack is to control mood swings. Maybe, I might have better in it.
What would I be doing?
For me, the only goal would be to bring my father back. During this whole process, I would be searching for what should be done to bring him back. After years of search, I finally would have realized that learning physics will be the only way. So I wouldn’t have wasted my time trying to be an Automobile Engineer, a PG degree in some Canadian university, a lighting designer, a writer/director, or a full stack developer. My focus should have been only on, physics. There is every chance that I would be holding a Ph.D. in physics and working on ways to get in touch with him and to bring him back. During the process, I would be married with two kids at this stage. And the writer, Entrepreneur dreams of mine would’ve gone. When I realize it has gone, it’ll be too long to get back. I would be working 24/7 to find a solution to getting him back.
What will it be when he finally reach planet earth?
Ah! At last, here comes the part for which the whole story was. Working for 24/7 to find a solution, I would be 50 by now. My kids will be in their early 20’s. And once he is back, I would have hugged him with all my force which would be our first ever hug. I hope, we will be having a lot to discuss, as we both are related to physics by then. During the process, I would’ve recognized that we were almost of the same age. It would be an emotional moment for me to know. But my hope now then and forever would be either he understands my views, desire & passion or I understand his.