An Announcement chapter4

Story about Jack's pilgrim

The Information Center was located about ten minutes from where I was by walking. The facade was a cream white wall, the roof was painted dark brown. One big door which was the same color as the roof was was in the middle, two glass windows were set in on the right side. Through the glass windows you could see inside but this time I couldn't see anybody in there. It was strange that nobody waited for me. Really? Wasn't it natural, was it? Here was the Information Center. How do we get information from an information center where nobody is? Nevertheless, I decided to go in hoping White and Bella awaited. As I touched the door to open it, the dark brown door was a little bit wet as if it swelled with the moisture in the air. That humidity had me recollect a certain TV program. The TV program was a cartoon for children. A 6-year-old boy watched TV. That boy was me. That cartoon's story was a simple. A man was to go somewhere. I couldn't remember where he wanted to go. He tried to go out, but whenever he tried, he recalled something. That was, for example, whether turning off the light or not, whether locking a door or not. It was like that. Finally he made everything right and he was happy, but no sooner did he open the door than it started raining. Eventually, he couldn't go out. When I was six years old, that story was just funny. As 30 years passed, the face of the man in that cartoon still lingered in me. In the last scene, his eyes gazed straight at me, of course he didn't gaze at me. However, his eyes caught me. I was caught. It symbolized the conversion from happiness to desperation. A dark brown door, which wasn't related to the cartoon made me remember my childhood. I sighed. Then, I opened the door.