The story continues.

Vegetables are common here. Meat is rare, but highly valued. We eat whole grains. They are bland, but nutritious. We know we’re not like the rest of the city. We are not afraid to be different. Rather than try to hide our differences, we hide ourselves, and flaunt our differences. While the rest of the world lives on specially formulated pills, designed to be nutritious enough to provide an entire meal, we live through our own effort. We live without depending on those who have what would once be considered a super power. By our own hands, or we shall die. We once depended on others to save our lives, but now we know better. Worth is not depending on others, and instead depending on oneself. We have worth, in a world where so few others do. Tonight, this will change.
Tonight, the world changes. Tonight, witness the rise of the unpowered. Not the fall of the powered, for we shall not be leaving this place until after the world has ended. The world as we know it ends, tonight, you see. Tonight, the night that will change, will end the world, is underway now, even as we speak. It bears repeating. The world ends tonight. Tonight, the last night of the world as we know it, and the beginning of the rise of the new order. A new order, where worth matters, rather than power. Worth, you are surely aware, is not power. Worth is achieved through effort. Achievement without toil carries no worth. Giving away that which takes you no effort to create is not worth. Worth is working, creating something useful, adding to the world. While power is not worth, worth is power. Tonight, the world will learn the power of worth.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8:07 PM

    Scott-

    I love your enthusiasm for writing! It's so hard for me to even attempt writing anything creative, and you've already got a story going on your blog. As one future teacher to another (and moreso as one reader to another) you should check out the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I don't know too much about your story yet, though from what I've read so far, I think you'd get a kick out of it. Never lose your passion for creative writing. It's what's going to make you a great teacher some day. Thanks for your thoughts.

    Aaron

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