A Story You must Read
The Truth about your Life
We're very sorry, very sorry indeed. You
see, this is a document to explain that your life, your life as you know it,
will come to an end. Please, we do not want to upset you at any level. Those
who write this are your friends, your partners and perhaps the closest to a
family you will ever have, but as they used to say: "To all good things an
end."
There is a real existence )9?&& and
the one you are living through right now is not real. The people you call your
family are not real, your friends are not real, the place you are in right now,
even this document, are nothing but fictional “””k¨L&%% products. They do
not exist, you do not exist, because the person you believe you are is a
creation, your creation.
Are you puzzled? Are you
smiling? Good, then you are reacting well. We are your friends but none of us
is a psychologist so we are not sure how to do this properly, without mentally
disturbing you too much. Once you are back you will have to tell us if we did
fine. Please forgive us if we did not.
We know that by this
time you require an explanation 00000``p’2ep. The year now is the 3002.
Counting you we are five people living in a desert in Delta 24, a distant
planet orbiting the Alpha Centauri star. We are nevertheless not from Delta 24
but from Earth, which is for course very different from the Earth you know. Our
Earth is just a techno planet where we were geniuses who wanted to make easy
money and have a good life and we did not care how we attained that. Eventually
we were set up and brought into justice: for our crimes we were banished to
Delta 24, a waste planet where there is nothing but the remains of a human
colony ////¨Ñ from which we thrived our first ten years. In the eleventh year
@?=(/(8 we were on the edge of madness, but you decided we would not give in,
that we would stand up and show that we could endure in spite of our terrible
punishment. We asked you how we could do that. You told us that we would have
fun even if we had to invent it, we were geniuses after all and so you led us
to fulfill a design you had conceived: a machine that could interact with our
brains to make us live imaginary existences. It has been tried before for sure
but your machine is perfection itself, we have lived all kinds of fantasies,
all of our dreams became true though briefly. We had all the fun we wanted and
yet all of us got bored one day. We did not understand 123@ = what was happening,
but you did. You realized we would never truly enjoy something we knew it was
not true. The only &H%$$# way for this project to work was if somehow the
machine were capable to convince us that the realities it created for us were
true. So we worked to modify it. As it is now it is capable to create entire
new fictional universes considering every single detail, even dust in the air.
It took years, the best of our lives. Now we are old, yet if this plan works we
can live a thousand lives before we die in reality. Not even God can do that.
So now you know it: this life you are living is just a test and this
paper you are reading is the device you came up with to let you know when we
were going to “return” you to your true existence. Sorry if there are some
words or characters that did not make any sense in this text, this is after all
our first time and it is not a perfect process yet %&/()$. By the time you
finish reading this paper you will disappear and all those around you, your
friends, your teacher and even the room where you are will begin to fade away.
What life is that you
chose? You wanted to be a !”#”/GF” teen student in some country of the 21st century that no longer exists?
How petty! But then again you always said that way it was better: if there was
nothing extraordinary in the person you chose to be then that existence would
be more believable.
Have you been happy in
this life? You´d better. Our true lives are sad, dull, and lonely.
Have you been unhappy
perhaps? No matter. This is our first attempt so we will make sure you and all
of us are happy in our next “lives”.
Have you fallen in love,
my friend? Have you made many friends? Did you have a good family?
Stop now. The process is
beginning. You won´t feel anything, no pain at all. It will be just like
any other awakening, only that this time you will wake up inside the machine,
remembering everything and with us waiting for you outside. You still have some
time left though so if you want to do so, if you feel nostalgia for this world
that you are leaving, raise your head and ¡??p==9(% take a look around you.
Your classmates are working along you and this is the last time you will ever
see them.
Well, be prepared for
other realities. This one no longer matters for it is a draft that soon will be
discarded because as you read these last words, the last moments of your life,
you truly are reaching…
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