So I've been having reoccurring conversations or debates what have you about what power would be better to have: invisibility, immortality, or telepathy. Most of my friends chose invisibility, but not I. I thought the ability to never age or die would be the greatest power ever like vampires. What would it be like to stay 18 forever? forever...
Greg is absolutely ecstatic that graduation was drawing closer, 2 days to be exact. He got into college and just can't wait to leave Long Island and start the new chapter to his life. He came back from orientation less than 2 weeks ago and has made some great friends whom Greg thinks will be in his life until the day they die. His mother is very sentimental about her "baby" leaving her and even though Greg has enjoyed his 13 years of school, he's ready to pack up and go. Time just can't go any faster for Greg.
June 25, 2009- GRADUATION! He's done it. Four years of this hellhole have ended. He wants nothing to do with end-of-the-year goodbyes, signing of yearbooks, sobbing due to the nostalgia and "heaviness" that is the completion of all these years with peers and faculty. Each year filled with memories just pleading to be forgotten until they are recalled again years later and appreciated ever more - not for him. Most of his friends are in college anyway.
June 25, 2111- Greg has been 18 for 102 years. Technology has seen much success since the 21st century, but he is filled with lethargy to live another day. Everyone is gone. No friends, parents, cousins, aunts, or uncles - nobody. He didn't even have a lover because he never aged. He feels nothing but loneliness and emptiness. It's as if he's near extinction, but just can't bite the dust. He is isolated as he travels the new world because he has no one. To have to see all of his loved ones and friends pass on while he be given the "gift" of living forever was unbearable. He longs for his friends and family back the way deserts long for rain. Luckily for him an enormous asteroid crashes into the earth's core and saves him. "Nothing to live for...just not worth it," he whispers to himself as he prepares for impact and watches as it enters the atmosphere. It seemed like forever until impact, but he knows what that feels like...what's an extra few minutes?
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