This is my first take on writing fictions.
I would like to apologize beforehand for some spelling and grammar mistakes that you might find in my story (for now and later) since English is not my first language.
But I hope you enjoy it. :D
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4:00 pm, inside the President’s Office of the Republic of the Philippines
“I assure you, you won’t regret this, Mr. President.”A chubby woman in her late 30’s confidently stated.
“How can you be so sure about this?”A man in his late 40’s shifted his sight from the piece of paper that is causing him distress to the guests inside his office.
“Mr. President, I know that you can understand better than any other people what we, parents, worry about. We want to make sure that our children survive in this dog-eat-dog world without our assistance. And in order to do that, we need the VR system. “A woman in her early 30’s stood up and walks in front of the president.
The one whom they call the president was still sitting on his chair with his hand on his chin, brooding on his stall decision. Then after a few seconds, he finally spoke and said:
“What about the bad effects brought by this so-called VR system? And don’t even try and think for a second to lie to me, because I know and you all know that there’s bound to be problems arising from this later. Have you ever thought of any of that? Do you understand now? We are risking the children. We are risking our country’s future. ” The president can't help but express his fierce opposition to this idea and expressed it by standing against his guests.
“Of course we had thought about that a million of times, Mr. President. That’s why we need to introduce the system earlier to them. So that the students will get used to it, and not wind up getting addicted over it.” The chubby woman is now standing beside the other guests.
Then the third guest finally joins in the argument.
“Mr. President, over the years, we have received numerous reports from the *LEC that stated that the students aren’t very participative as before. They also lack confidence with themselves because they lack communication skills and competencies to back them. These might be small factors that you might not consider for now, but it may pose a threat on the future of our children, the future of our country.
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But, the VR system will solve this all. Since, its goal is towards development and mastering of competencies and for players to get their quest, they have to interact with the NPCs. Also, we made sure that as much as possible every quests and event are interesting so that they’ll surely focus on completing them.”
”And your point is?” The president said shifted his gaze to the man speaking.
“What I’m trying to say, Mr. President is that enthusiasm, good communication skills and mastery of competencies are the things that our children lacks right now and they need it fast. The world is ever changing and technology is evolving fast.
And where do they stand? Where does our country stand? We are at the very bottom of the pit.
Now, if we really want to rise and compete with other nations at the global scale, we need to step up a notch. And we will start it with the children; the children will bring us the future we all desire. And it will never happen if we don’t take a risk.”
The man then walks towards where his two companions stands and positioned himself in between them.
“Your choice: our future.” The man offered his pen to the president.
The president shifted his gaze from the pen, back to the guests in front of him.
“Thank you, but I have a pen.”
The president took out his pen and finally signed the paper.
“You certainly made the right choice, Mr. President. We, at LANPANMEJ Corporation, will surely be with you, every step of the way.” The guests said in chorus.
After that, they excuse themselves and finally left the president alone in his office.
The president slowly sits back to his seat and muttered in the air.
“I sure hope that I did.”
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Later that evening…
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Author’s Note:
*LEC- Learners Evaluation Committee (purely based on imagination)
This.is.IMAGINATION.