Chapter 15: Precious Records of the Future
The beautiful island on the blue ocean strove to maintain a peaceful balance like a ship floating on a restless wave, everyday was a challenge as time passed, it took a long time to cultivate a unique flower from a seed, the Queen Regent managed to merge the two cultures into one whole, or like a circle of yin and yang that complement each other, living in harmony and good relations in a small kingdom on the island of Bali. It was increasingly clear to her that the surrounding islands will unite into one whole and create a united kingdom, if this does not happen in my lifetime it will happen in the distant future, these are all things that she cannot influence tomorrow, only in her lifetime wanted to make this beautiful kingdom the most beautiful island of peace and prosperity.That's why the mask didn't bother her, just behind it she felt free like a bird of paradise, no one could see her tears behind the mask, she was the actress of her life, and life is a responsibility towards yourself and others, we can't choose many things in life, that's why we can appreciate what we can make of life. Some wanted to see who was hiding behind the mask, but in her future life she was a professional actress and they put make-up under the mask, if it accidentally slipped off, no one would recognize the former princess Kang Cing Wei from the Song dynasty.There is another advantage of living in the 21st century, everyone is given the freedom to take care of their appearance as they want, beauty salons, collagen foods, creams and many other things that can beautify a woman, and she even learned a facial massage for correction of her face so that no one recognizes her anymore in the 12th century when she came back from sleep.For her safety she used one trick which worked well as main reason she covered face with mask all time, since child she learned from her grandmother about flowers and plants benefits, also she discovered that in some seasons pollen from tree or flowers can irritated eye and nose making her face too swallowed and eye itching and red like blood, so in order to avoid readiness che covered face with mask, so none was forcing her anymore to take off mask from face. The only thing she was missing from that future world was a smartphone, which for her was a treasure of knowledge that fit in a small pocket, now she would need a whole library of books from all fields to find some advice or insight, so she made the decision to write down her memoirs from the future and it will be her gift to others who do not have a chance to live in the future Indonesia of 2024, even in dreams like she did during her pregnancy when she had to rest to maintain the pregnancy, so the doctor introduced her to a kind of astral travel in her sleep in order to survive that long period of sleeping without moving out of bed.Of course no one would believe her that it was all true, so she wrote in the third person as a legend about an unknown princess from the fictional H kingdom who traveled to the future, her decision was to give all the correct information she remembered in the story, with a message of preservation of peace, mutual tolerance and unity of all peoples living in this part of the world. Just as the sky sends us a message in the rain clouds, soldiers on high rocks release smoke signals that an enemy pirate ship is coming from the sea, the queen felt a moral duty to leave a message about the world that will happen here 2000 years from now. Although printing was already used in the Song Dynasty, here on the island of Bali, all written correspondence took place and was written on palm leaves by pressing the leaves into long-lasting and durable lontar.The process of writing on the lontar was long because the letters were engraved and colored with ink using a special technique, but the lontar written in this way was long-lived, so the Queen Regent used Song Dynasty script calligraphy because the process was faster on paper for manuscript books.In the late hours when the kingdom would sleep in a dream, the queen regent of Bali would write down her memories, sometimes until the early morning when her son would wake her up."Mother, you stayed up writing today again!""I have to son, I will send this to the printing house in the Song Dynasty, the merchant ship is coming soon so I will send the manuscript by them to the publisher of my book."