The Cycle

     If I was informed that “death will be the certain fate of hundreds of millions of people” within a short timeline of six months, I am certain that people will pursue their dreams to the best of their ability, dropping all undesirable aspects of their daily routines, and creating chaos in their wake because they now disregard all social rules that they find meaningless. That would surely be the first thought that comes to my mind, but the second would be that I do not know what I would want to do with the rest of my life. Surely, I would remove schooling from my list because it would make no sense to me to prepare for a distant future that I would never get to live. I assume that I would begin looking at the world with new eyes, appreciating all the things that I previously thought were too common to look at a second time. But I think this appreciation will fade after a short time, and a feeling of normalcy will come back into my life for a few months until I realize once again that my time on Earth has a deadline. I would be put back into the cycle, returning to the original mindset in which I will attempt to pursue all the dreams that I have ever had, remove all annoyances from my life, and disregard all social rules that I have ever found pointless.