Let's Take it Down a Notch Tonight...

We find our protagonist sitting quietly at his home computer, thinking of where he really should be, at this point in his life. He returned to his parents' home years ago, with small hope of escaping. without prospects, without a real job, without even a car. The seclusion wears him down, weighs heavily on his every thought. Far from friends, from hope, from life. From time to time, he manages to get out of his alabaster prison and see the world as it truly is, full of life and splendor and variety. he's living in someone else's perfect vision, but the truth of the world is just so much more beautiful. Unfortunately, this merely gives him a brief look into how life could be. He meets new people, makes new friends, and learns about their daily lives. There are places in the world, where the rare and exciting are close at hand, and whatever spice of life you desire can be had at a whim. Vivid, myriad life, at your fingertips. The dream of such a thing seems so impossible, but he sees it, so clearly, through the vision of his new friends. Do we take heart, nkow that this heaven is real? Or do we despair, realizing that the path to this place branched off from ours long ago, and the hope of experiencing while we're still alive enough to truly appreciate it is slipping away, daily? We fight we drop everything else, we fight. We see so clearly how things could be. We know that the light is out there, glimmering, if we only seek it out. His life was once shining with possibility. It is time to bring back the light.