EMOTIONS MANAGEMENT
The life of a young man back in the
80s was very different from now. To get started, technology was just
blooming and the stupid trends we have right now did not exist, everything was
purer and simpler: friends, relationships, life in general, but now it just
seems like all society got worse, damaged, broken, as if with every day that
passes by, humanity becomes more dependent on technology, and more stupid.
Everyone
knew he was going to be successful, and last but not least, his family had a
lot of money. Everything was okay until a tragedy happened, he said,
everything was supposed to be good, but that event ruined everything.
One day after school, Pete and his friends were
going to hang out at the beach, like any normal group of rich friends would do
on a sunny day, traveling on a road which was lonely, while they were listening
to loud music. Pete was driving and his best friend, Chris, was on the seat besides,
though then it happened... Nobody saw it, where did it come from?
Chris was just there, singing and talking to the
girls in the back seat, but he was gone all of a sudden, just a lot of blood on
the seat, a huge rock fell from the mountain and pushed him out of the car.
Pete stopped the car immediately, he was
shocked, he both neither thinks on anything, nor says anything, it was like if
time had stopped for him right there.
Peter changed, he isolated himself from society,
no more friends, no more school, just him in his room doing nothing, thinking
of nothing, the last time he was seen out of his house, was at Chris' funeral,
when he was there in the distance only to pay respect to Chris, because he
really loved him.
After many months, Peter decided it was time to
go back to society, he thought "Chris would not like to see me failing in
life because of him", so he did it, but when he did so, he realized
something, society was the same, but everything seemed weird, like everyone
seemed not mature enough for doing the things that he himself used to do. He
started thinking things like "things teenagers do are so stupid"
"Why do they get driven by dumb emotions?”, "Why do they focus on stupid things?
", he realized he needed to get away from society to see how society
really was, now he could be in the society and not get drift by emotions and
dumb things, because he knew exactly was he was doing.
In fact, he got scared because/ of this
situation, he tried dating a girl, but he couldn't feel like a normal teenager
would, actually, he dumped the girl without any expression on his face, he didn't
care about her feelings, he tried watching sad videos on YouTube, but he
wouldn't feel anything either, every time he fought with his mom, he would try
to explain things like a simple mechanical system, getting the emotions
right off the way, his mom could be crying, he would still try to make her
understand. It was like all his emotions shut off.
To be
continued…
By Camilo Duarte, Step 11
