VIII

Hello again. A lot has transpired since we last talked. Hold on a sec. I’m sorry, I don’t even know your name? How rude of me not to have asked before. As I said, my name is IX. A pleasure to meet you. As I was saying – yes. Things are beginning to move along the path I’ve decided to create for myself. You see, I’m aiming to take a cross-country road trip towards the end of summer. A pilgrimage, of sorts. Ever since I was a wee lad, I’ve often wondered what it’d be like to wander around the desert. Truly, the middle of nowhere. Just to get lost. Not to be found. But it’s as I said – this is a story not about discovery, it’s about creation. Very much like the creation story we’ve all been taught, only I’m the one playing God.

But what if we’re all wrong, huh? What if there is no afterlife? What if there is no heaven, or purgatory, or hell? What if there is no reincarnation for a second chance? What if, we do not just fall asleep forever? What if, we are all wrong? What if, none of what we have killed each other for, has been of any point but only pointing the blame towards others out of our own hatred towards ourselves? Hmm, what then? What God or Gods can protect you then. Not even from yourself will you be saved, let alone any damnation to follow…We are not ready to learn the TRUTH. For we are too busy being blinded by our own lies. The moment you are neither happy or sad, neither sun or rain, neither love or hate; is the moment you are truly neither alive or dead or anything in-between. You will just be simply, you. -IX