Riz wakes up early the next morning, preparing himself for the last interview he has at eleven in the morning.
He groggily makes his way to the bathroom, his eyes still heavy with sleep
By relying on his memory, he is able to reach the bathroom with barely open eyes.
He opened the valve and cold water started flowing out from the shower head and fell onto his head.
The cold water jolted him awake, dispelling the last of his drowsiness.
Fifteen minutes is all he needs.
After taking a shower, he reached for his wardrobe.
A dark blue shirt with black slack pants and a black tie was his choice today.
He prefers dark colours over bright ones. It didn't attract too much attention.
Riz looks at the mirror and begins to fix his hair. He makes sure his hair is neat in every possible way.
'If I don't get the job this time, I will give up working in this field.'
He is mentally tired from constant failure. It is better to give up and move on. There is no point trying to get something that he has a small chance of getting.
It is a waste of time and energy.
The most popular phrases his teachers, counsellors and motivators often said to him were 'As long as you don't give up, you will achieve your dream.'
From time to time he wonders if people in the educational sector have a talent for giving false hope.
Unfortunately, a neverending failure teaches him that hard work doesn't lead you to success, but talent and luck do.
'9.45 am. I have an hour left to get to the interview site'. It takes 45 minutes to get to the interview place from Riz's house.
Seeing that he doesn't have much time left, Riz grabs two slices of bread and starts to put peanut butter on it.
After finishing his breakfast in fifteen minutes, he grabs his motorcycle's key and heads towards the garage.
"I'm going to the interview, Mom!", Riz tells his mother.
"Okay, good luck", Rosana replied to her son.
It took only five minutes for Riz to get to the main road.
The interview place that Riz is heading to is located at the city 40 km north of the city he lives in.
In order to get to the highway, Riz needs to ride on the main road for 3 km and encounter two traffic lights.
After 1 km of riding on the main road, Riz stopped at the first traffic light.
There are a lot of motorcycles there waiting for the green light. The road today is busy as always since today is also a working day.
'I hope I won't be late.'
The traffic lights he is waiting at take so long to turn green.
He looked at his wrist, the watch showed '10.10 a.m.'
He only has 50 minutes left. Riz always arrives at the interview place fifteen minutes early. There, he will go through the materials about the company.
He is doing some research background beforehand.
Looking at the time now, he knew that he could barely make it at best.
After a long three minutes, the traffic lights finally turn green.
Riz, like the other motorcyclists, starts moving towards the second traffic light that is 2 km ahead.
Since he is running out of time, Riz speeds up a little bit. He knows very well that there is no police traffic patrolling in this area. Probably eating some doughnuts right now.
'100 km per hour on the straight road is okay right?'
When Riz is almost reaching the second traffic light, the light turns yellow.
"Oh, come on!", Riz starts to get annoyed with the traffic lights.
'What's wrong with the traffic lights today?' Riz starts to get annoyed with the traffic lights. He is very short on time now, not to mention that he needs to face the traffic jam on the highway next.
Riz speeds up a little bit more in order to cross the traffic light before it turns red.
He is not the only one who has this thought. Almost every driver on the road has this same thought.
After all, who wants to waste another two or three minutes waiting at the traffic light?
Unfortunately, without him realizing it, another motorcycle is approaching from his left side at a faster speed.
The motorcycle passed him and moved to his front.
The motorcycle then suddenly slows down as he is not confident he cross the traffic light on time before it turns red.
This caught Riz off guard.
He tried to stop but he felt it is already too late and his motorcycle will definitely crash with the motorcycle in front of him.
Therefore, in an attempt to avoid colliding with the motorcycle in front of him, Riz shifts his motorcycle slightly to the left.
However, he put too much energy into that attempt and completely fall to the ground.
Riz's left foot was crushed by the weight of the motorcycle. He slid on the road together with his motorcycle for 50 metres.
Riz felt unbearable pain on the left side of his body. He try to get up but he couldn't.
As he struggles to move, a car coming from behind was unable to stop in time.
The car directly crashes into Riz who is trying to get up.
Everything happens so fast that Riz's mind couldn't comprehend what was going on. However, he had an unsettling feeling that something irreversible was about to occur.
Surprisingly, he didn't feel anything. Perhaps the only thing that crossed his mind was that he had not accomplished much in his 24 years of life.
As for his family, he doesn't feel any tangible emotions towards them at all.
Gradually, his consciousness slipped away...