The doorbell rang a few times. I hardly stood up and went near to the door. Well, I was like this for a day. I missed my childhood. I opened the door. Lots of children were waiting me. I was waiting them for an hour too. I let them come in and everybody sat somewhere.

I sat to my swinging-chair too. In the first minutes, anybody spoke. That was good, because I had a few minutes to think. Well, everything started when I first went our neighborhood’s scientist to celebrate his Eid day and eat some candy. But when I arrive there, ha asked me;
“A world tour or any age for a week?” When he first asked this, I didn’t understand and didn’t answered. But he didn’t stop asking. At last, I whimpered myself;
“If I could be any age for a week, I would choose to be a very old person so…” He must have heard me, so the scientist spoke while I was whimpering my sentence;
“Okay, so you will drink this one! And, sorry for my untidiness, Eid Mubarak!” He gave me a candy, but I didn’t know that he dropped some of his experiments in it. The day after it, I become a very old person. And, before you ask I want to answer, you will say what were you going to say if professor (the scientist) didn’t cut your sentence? Well, I was going to say that;
If I could be any age for a week, I would choose to be a very old person so I could learn what happened in the past. If I was very old, I could live the time when my mom wasn’t in the world, or when America wasn’t explored! I will live so I will see! Genius, or not?
“Hey, Are you sleeping?” I woke up from deep dreams. The children were touching me to awake me. Oldness! What can I do? 
I smiled to the children and gave them candy and some chocolate. They were all here to listen my stories that I lived before. It was funny too, all in all, I was bigger than my mother! Anyway, I started talking not to make the children wait too much;
“Hmmm, let me think… Oh, what do you think about 1900, when I was eight years old? A good time, right? So, let’s start…
Oh, lots of things, The Egyptian railway finished and the first train went, Paris’ metro has opened, Hawaii entered to USA, William MCKINLEY had been the USA’s president and unhappily the famous Osman pasha died… We were in ottoman empire these times. We were the owner of the world’s one third. Unhappily it changed. If I were in the place of William MCKINLEY, I would make the country a Muslim country and be a friend with the Ottoman Empire. Everything could be different… Or if I were the Padishah of Ottoman Empire, I would not enter to the first world wars in 1914-1918, so the Empire wouldn’t go down! Ahh…

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