The Loop
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The first piece of evidence was the list, as I have explained. However, one anomaly only constitutes an exception. I would not have taken a risk on one exception. If you think back to the mission the Erebus II had left to complete, you will find two more exceptions. They went to paint the cave with photo-absorbent paint. I already changed the need for that. Those future humans also were going to Earth to leave a golden talisman in the cave, the talisman that I already placed there as well. The list, the cave, and the talisman make three. Three exceptions make a pattern. When you have a pattern, you cannot have a contradictory law. That is basic science. That is how I knew I could change things. I am ready to admit though that I also knew I had to alter our path. Why?
When this deposition started, I was on trial, possibly for my life. You saw me as a criminal who destroyed the heavens. I was the man who killed life everywhere in the galaxy and turned off the stars. That is simply not true.
I did not destroy life. I created it. Humans and every other kind of living creature was trapped. We were stuck in a continuous loop. Our future and our history were entwined and decided. We were not free. That is not life.
For longer than we can ever know, our lives were split between millions of bodies across billions of miles in space, doomed to never make an original decision and never have free will. That is not life.
We have never experience life. We were cogs in a machine only meant to advance energy and time. That is not life.
Now we are alone. There is no other life other than here and now. All we are is here and now, we have no future and no past to haunt us. We are it. That is life.
Our choices are our own. Our lives will mean something. We are not simply going around in circles, merely existing. In the here and now, we must live. In the here and now, we can live. Because the here and now is all we have left. I have given us all a gift, possibly the greatest gift mankind can ever have.
Some say that I may have killed us all yet. Our solar system is simply a ticking time bomb that will one day, poof, disappear. Any day, at any time, we could simply cease to exist. They may be right, I don’t know. So, tonight, when you go home and hug the ones you love tight, express love that you have been waiting to tell. If we are lucky enough to wake up to world still here in the morning, live every second to the fullest. We don’t know if it will be the last any of us have. That is life. I’m going to go live mine now. Thank you.”
Alex walked out the back of the auditorium. No one stopped him.
About The Author
A long time follower, and lover, of science fiction, and fiction in general, Richard Leru, formulates ideas and storylines from his life experiences and the infinite possibilities of our imagination. Leru leans heavily on his skills learned throughout college, personal observation, and as a member of high thought societies to create original stories that are entertaining, well written and make the reader think about the world around them. The Loop, is the first of Leru’s stories to be published.
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