Picture this…
Interior location. Sterile and organised with neutral colouring and advanced technological machinery clearly expressing a modern but futuristic setting.
In this world, our technology is so advanced now that we all exceed our old life expectancies. With money or new world order or AI, we have found a way to cheat old habits of accidents and dying.
Now imagine when we get so old, we know that our time is about to end and we get to decide “yep this is it, this is the exact moment to go”, and you just do. Complete control over it. It would have to be over a certain age so it wouldn’t be used for inhumane reasons but we’ve figured all this stuff out by then.
We invest into a small microchip that can read our memories and convert them into an augmented reality that only we can see before us and is only accessible when we come to this moment. We choose the seat or bed and backdrop that we wish to lay in once more. We press the button on the side of our temple and the song we have chosen begins to play as we lay back and enjoy the ride.
I’m playing Sunday’s by FKJ or Landslide by Fleetwood Mac.
You relax and watch through a video montage of our earliest memories, through our milestones, heartbreaks, triumphs, our first trip, our first flirt, insignificant interactions that we seem to never forget, reoccurring dreams, loved ones coming and going, the times we failed and the times we succeeded, the times where our life could’ve gone one of two ways and we chose the one we chose, all leading up to this moment.
Through your lens it seems like mere flashes but with the emotions attached to each memory, it feels as though you are reliving every single one of those moments. Your eyes water, you can’t help but smile and almost chuckle at all those stupid times you thought this meant everything when it was just a stepping stone on your journey.
As the song fades out and comes to an end, the lens gets dimmer, your eyelids are resting and you take your last breathe. Relieved. Grateful.
I did it.
What a ride it was.
What a gift life is.
Thank God I didn’t spend half of it scrolling on Tik Tok.
Got ya! Now please – get off your phone, spend more time with your loved ones than the ones who don’t know you exist, through a glass screen. Make your life meaningful and don’t give in to mindless addiction. You were created for something greater. We are here to connect with one another. This world has more to offer than the one online does. It’s never too late…
And try jiujitsu.
Peace.