Emptiness

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Once there was an empty space. This empty space had always been alone. Never knowing anything else quite like the contentment of emptiness.

One day the empty space noticed a new presence. Something it had never before seen. The emptiness wandered over to this new thing and realized it had a power which was frightening and yet... comforting at the same time.

The thing noticed Emptiness and spoke:

'You will miss it when it is gone. When there is nothing but an empty void... you will miss the space it filled. You will want it back but you can never get it again, because you are empty and content with your nothingness'.

This cryptic message was lost on Emptiness so he wandered away into the farthest reaches of the space where he existed. But... the presence was always there. Always frightening and comfortable.

Emptiness grew accustomed to this presence. Emptiness grew to know this presence as Warmth and Love. Emptiness began to change until he was no longer an empty space, but now he was a Yearning and Longing existence.

So Emptiness existed and visited Warmth every chance it could. For a time longer than he could even remember, Emptiness surrounded itself with Warmth and Love until he became Warm and Loving.

Emptiness was no longer content. Now he was happy.

But things change and one day Emptiness could no longer feel Warmth and Love. It searched everywhere for the presence but nowhere in all this space could it be found... and worse. It could not be felt.

And the pain came with it. The Yearning and Longing. The hopeless realization that Warmth and Love had disappeared forever. The words of that first day came back to Emptiness.

'You will miss it when it is gone. When there is nothing but an empty void... you will miss the space it filled. You will want it back but you can never get it again, because you are empty and content with your nothingness'.

The pain built within and all around Emptiness until it felt it should die. But it could not die, for it was empty and alone. It longed for even a single flicker of Warmth to soothe this agonizing pain... but it could not feel that Warmth and Love.

Soon Emptiness changed again and became Brokenness. It became so broken that it became Bitterness and Hatred.

It learned to hate Warmth and Love and turned the pain it felt into a weapon. It turned into Madness and Insanity.

Then one day as Emptiness screeched across the space basking in the pain it felt... the Warmth and Love came back. At first Emptiness was confused, but then Hatred took over and Hatred attacked Warmth and Love until it was destroyed and could never again return.

Emptiness died then. Emptiness truly became Nothing and could never go back to what it had been right at the beginning when it had nothing except itself and the wide open space it had always known.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Jessica Jaufmann]

A very literal translation of life through emotions as characters. I really enjoyed it. I believe you added a little more story and plot to this, it could turn into something original and fascinating. Let me know if you do an update!