Maybe the idea of reality is only a construct of mind or maybe nothing ever is real?
The idea of reality is not comprehensible for the finite human mind and Alan's finite mind is unable to understand the events happening in reality .
"It's time" A voice in the familiarly unfamiliar language spoke.
"It's time for what?" Alan spoke as everything around him slowly grew darker and darker until nothing but him remains in void now created.
"Time for revelation my son", the voice replied.
"You had everything you wanted with your life, why did you throw it away", the voice spoke. "I threw it away? It was taken away from me, my family, my friends,my brother,my Vanessa Everyone was taken away from me." Alan shouted in a cracking voice with tears flowing through her eyes.
"My family and Vanessa you said, where was this live for your Venessa and family when you had them? You never wanted that life you wanted something more, something else from your life, now you have something else" the voice spoke in monotone voice and unfazed with the words.
"Who are you?" Alan shouted " what is all this" . Alan breathing heavily, his hands trembling.
"I am everything and everyone , the air you breathe, the water you drink, the family you love, the venessa you need, the universe that produced you." The voice replied in an eeriely similar pattern.
"So you are god?" Alan asked.
"GOD is a construct of the human mind son, humans created god so they can look up to someone, so they can have a sense of hope, so everything about this world makes sense , but let me tell you something son , this universe doesn't makes sense, not to a finite mind like of humans."
"What the hell does this mean and what does it have to do with me?" Alan asked in a low voice now with an exhausted look on his face.
"Everything." Replied the voice. " You are comprehending what you are capable of comprehending, I don't expect this to make sense to you."
" I want my old life back" alan shouted with trembling hands and wet eyes.
" How do you know this is not your life? Maybe you just woke up from a dream and this is reality?".
"It's not possible." Alan replied as his whole perspective about everything changed right in front of him. Alan's voice grew silent . He stood there thinking and thinking in silence. His whole truth was dissipating right in front of him.
" Tell me about venessa.What is so special about her?" The voice asked
Alan stood there not replying to the voice. Alan just stood there.
"Tell me why you want her back? What is so special about her now that it was not a week ago."
" I may not have appreciated her but i understand now, she means everything to me."
" And what so special about her you ask me tell you - THE WAY SHE SMILES, THE WAY SHE TALKS, THE WAY SHE SIMPLY EXISTS IS EVERYTHING I NEED TO SPEND MY LIFETIME JUST BY WATCHING HER.
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I WILL RATHER SOEND 5 MINUTES WITH HER THAN A LIFETIME WITH SOMEONE ELSE." said alan , after a long time , a sense of confidence was flowing through his voice. He was not thinking before speaking,the words came straight from his core.
As alan spoke alan snapped back into the party. Everyone was dancing but alan stood there thinking silently "what just happened?" Alan thought.
As Alan was thinking venessa came through the door and looked at Alan. Alan looked towards venessa and venessa simled at him.
There was a sense of familiarity in that smile. It was the smile Alan remembered, the smile was enough for Alan to know that she loves him.
Alan started running towards Venessa but as soon as Alan started running ,Venessa left. The old man stopped alan
" She doesn't remember you." The old man said. "But she smiled" alan replied while catching his breath.
"I know but she doesn't know you,that was just a fragment of your broken reality" the old man replied.
" My broken what? What are you talking about." Alan asked , his voice trembling.
"Your reality is broken son." The man said. "There are things in the universe you don't understand but i can tell you one thing your reality is broken " Alan replied.
"How? Who broke it? And why?" Alan asked. "The universe alan, the universe broke it maybe because of you." Alan quickly asked , his mind flooding with questions " what universe? How can the universe break it"
"This universe is an ever changing thing for my son. It does things that simply mind like you can't understand. "
" So is it like a parallel universe?" Alan asked making of the situation what his human mind can. "Stop making sense of these thing. There is no paralled universe. This reality is merely an illusion, an illusion created by the universe not by you, universe can change and do things that your snese of reality can't comprehend." The man replied.
"Why me?" Alan asked in a whispering voice.
"Why don't you ask him yourself?"
Everything turned pitch black again.
The voice agains started speaking to Alan " There is no answer for your question son but I can give you a choice."
Two mirrors appeared in front of Alan one broken and one normal.
" You can walk through any of the mirrors , each mirror is a choice." Voice said.
"What choice?" Alan asked.
"If you stand in front of a broken mirror you will be in the reality where everything is normal with respect to you but venessa is not present in th. But if you stand in front of a normal mirror you will return to your life , the reality you are living in."
Alan stood there standing still like a statue and then Alan replied firmly , without fazing " I rather spend my life looking at her smile than a life without her " and approached the normal mirror.
As alan started moving towards the normal mirror A bright light appeared in front of Alan practically blinding him.
Alan closed his eyes and when the light disappeared then Alan opened his eyes.
Alan was stunned by the thing he was watching when he opened his eyes.
He was standing in the aisle in the market in front of a broken mirror. His mom called him "You okay Aly?"
Alan was too stunned to speak.
"What just happened?" Alan asked his mom. "You are standing here for a minute staring at the mirror, Are you okay?". Alan stood there scratching his head his eyes wide open in shock. "Y..y yeah fine, let's go home" Alan said to his mom still in confusion.
All things felt surreal to Alan, he touched flowers while going towards the car , walked barefoot on the grass. Alan wanted to feel everything, he had a sense of appreciation for everything in this universe. His mom , family , even his environment.
Alan walked to his car and started and sat down. Alan started driving towards his home with his mom.
Alan was too eager to reach home and call vanessa.
Alan teached home and ran directly towards his room to call vanessa and tell everything about this. He thought that this was universe's teaching to smke him appreciate his life more or it was a test to prove his love for vanessa in which he passed or is he?
As he opened his phone and look foor vaneesa Alan eyes opened wide. He got goosebumps, he started sweating profusely. The heart in front of vanessa's contact name was missing.
Maybe the universe had different plans for him.
The End
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