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Note: While authors are asked to place warnings on their stories for some moderated content, everyone has different thresholds, and it is your responsibility as a reader to avoid stories or stop reading if something bothers you.
A Lifeless Journey - 1. Chapter 1 My Lifeless Journey
My Lifeless Journey
My every step on the road I am set to walk on needed a reason to continue my journey. The reason never came to me, not with the possibility of pure hope. I waited for what seemed like forever, for someone who can understand me and accept me as I am. I never got that chance, so I continue on my unknown journey. There are so many road blocks and turns from which I get to learn lessons. I don’t always understand the lessons, but still try to infuse them in my life.
But unexpected things happen at unexpected times, and in unexpected ways. On one turn, for the first time, I stopped with some hope. That's when I felt you beside me. Suddenly I found something was changing around us. The world around us teemed with new life. Nature blossomed with different fragrances. Beautiful colors set to the long path we were now walking side by side. I think I can hear different kinds of birds singing melodiously.
It was all like I was walking in a living dream. But you are real, and with me. Until now I felt so alone, and I even wanted to stop the journey that was never ending. But now you have given warmth to my heart. You have given a reason to not stop. You have given the hope of good days in my future. You have given me everything I wanted. Everything I needed.
Unexpectedly, you liked the journey. You patiently listened to what I had to tell you. You never blamed me for my faults, but accepted my madness. You persisted on the journey you have made until you are here with me. You even assured me you had never shared about your life to anyone but me.
I know we have been through some misperceptions. I know we have gone through some situations we didn’t deserve. But what I care about is now. I just care what we have at this particular moment. I considered your innocence, which made me important to you. I only approve of what I see in your eyes when you are with me.
I assumed I am something to you. I thought you liked me the way I was. But I was wrong. All my assumptions were wrong. How could I be so blind?
And suddenly you stopped. You stopped where I thought fate, maybe for one time, had smiled towards me, towards us. But you stopped just where I can never expect a return. I wanted you to walk beside me. You were walking away, at an arm’s length, where I can't reach you. Even though we were walking on the same path, you made the distance grow greater.
Now I can see our paths have divided. I feel more than betrayed. I feel heart broken. You know, I have had my share of pain throughout my path before you came. But when you left it is not just pain, it is an ache. A heart ache that’s never gonna stop till I die. Why you left is still unknown to me. Whatever the reason, you made me the loneliest guy in the world again. I now have a gut feeling I was betrayed by the only guy I bound my hopes with.
I collapsed to my knees on the same road I must continue my journey. I can feel that I am moving. My chest is breathing unsteadily on this hard ground. But I can feel I am walking. I can smell the dusty path in my nostrils, but I am sure I am walking. Gathering all the strength remaining, I turn to see someone is walking on my path. A man I knew surely. What I never got to see before is he looks lifeless. He is walking like a zombie, like a robot that is preprogrammed.
I am shocked to see it's me. Yeah, the person walking like the dead is me. I can say it is just my body that is continuing my journey, or its journey to speak the truth. I can see my body moving on its own without any life in it. It's moving without any hope, without any life and without any love. I can feel the cold getting into my bones. I know I am taking my last breaths.
Without any hope to reach for my body, I curled up into a ball and looked at the path separated from mine. I found you there in exactly the same condition I am going through. You are looking confusedly at your body while it left you there mercilessly. I can see you look at me with awe in your eyes, and then you close them. I see you turn pale and go numb. With misty eyes I take my last breath and close my eyes.
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Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are based on the authors' lives and experiences and may be changed to protect personal information. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
Note: While authors are asked to place warnings on their stories for some moderated content, everyone has different thresholds, and it is your responsibility as a reader to avoid stories or stop reading if something bothers you.
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