The Traveler’s Imagination – A Short Story!

Hasan Yahya, Ph.DThe trip was too long, and they have to stay the
If you did not travel actually, and you are a night at the hotel. To save some money, she
wise traveler like me who travels only insuggested to have one room and divide the rate
imagination. You are lucky to travel safely, withoutin between. He accepted the idea. At the room,
facing airplane hijacking, or boat pirating in yourthere was a program show on TV. She was
voyage!  You travel in you dreams, awake orwatching. Channel 55 broadcasting a film about
sleeping. In both cases you enjoy traveling, seeingJames dean. The good looking guy of the
people you know, and people you never saw1960’s, at the end of the film, he dies in his
before, strange people, with ugly heads or hugeway to meet his girl friend.  She waited for him
shapes. If you face danger, like someone isforever, after she new the news. The girl was
running behind you to kill you, you immediatelycrying, he noticed, and gave her a handkerchief.
find  your way to escape. You simply, just Waited for her to come back to reality. 
open your eyes.He began to tell her about his visit to Tokyo,
My friend Jimmy, was one of these wiseJapan in his dreams. He read once about the
travelers. He used to travel every day and night.Geisha girls, and ever since, he dreamed as
In the street, or in the classroom. Swimming, ortraveling to Tokyo and have a good time with
eating. Jogging or play poling, He was a wisethese fairy tales about the Geisha girls.  She
traveler all the time. His ugly face made him asmiled, and listened to his story with dreams.
wise traveler.Then she began to laugh on his jokes, when he
One day, his travel was real, he took thediscovered that the geisha girl has a boy-friend,
greyhound to California,  in the way, he knew acame suddenly while he was trying to make out
girl, she was in his age, she’s leaving herwith the geisha girl. 
parents to find her way away from sisters,-          “poor Jimmy!, wherever you
brothers, and away from Mom, and Dad.travel, you find yourself in trouble.”
He was leaving his town, people began to call him-           “Yes! You are right, but not
names, Mr. imagination. Dummy traveler, honeyall times I was running, in fact sometimes I was
dreamer. And the last name made him decide tohiding, for my safety.” They laughed together.
leave the town forever, Mr. fantasy! He hated to-          “Time to sleep” she said,
hear that name!“he suggested to sleep on the couch. She did
1. They both discovered that wanted freedom,not mind, but she said, that he may sleep on the
and to begin a new life. She found that he wasbed beside her. If he can control himself. But he
funny, and sincere in his talks. He found her ainsisted to sleep away from her on the couch. In
good listener to his jokes. In short, they foundthe morning he found her laying beside him and
each other.her arm over his chest.