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Blue Blood

Short Stories
- Epitome Of Happiness
- An Allegory Of Chess

Epitome Of Happiness
         by Blue Blood
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Today I awoke to reality. I awoke from my dream; the most delightful dream I've ever had, a dream full of brightness, peacefulness, and happiness. As I walked along a never-never land, barefoot, in a soft cushion of green grass sanctified with morning dew, I looked straight forward as far as my eyes could see and witnessed a solid, luminous ray of light emanating from a distance. And, all of a sudden, I had euphoria deep down my heart as I saw the ray of light strike a multifaceted diamond, as big as my fist, hanging itself from the formerly dark and tranquil space around me. In no time, the whole world around me just illuminated as the diamond cut the thin incident ray laterally and propagated it into infinitely many rays passing through its facets in numerous directions. As I turned around in awe, I saw the sky above me studded with innumerable other star like gemstones of all colors available in nature. These gemstones were happily engaging themselves with their job of refracting the incident rays of light into many different colors. At every beat of my heart, the ambience became increasingly more illuminated. To my surprise, I saw two naked babies toddling along the green lawn not too far from where I was standing. They both turned briefly towards me as if to acknowledge my presence. Then, something suddenly deviated my attention. I heard psychedelic voices of pigeons singing from the vegetation surrounding me. Surprisingly, I understood their song as it translated itself into "Congratulations! You've made it." Immediately, as I turned to look back where those two babies were, I found out they had long disappeared.

No sooner had I been caressed with a cool breeze than my eyes caught sight of paradisiacal scenery of flowers blooming in the meadows nearby. They bloomed in all hues and colors pleasant to my eyes. I rejoiced smiling at them as they welcomed my presence with a hearty smile. Not to mention the fragrance they shed into the air was just so unbelievably delirious. I stood there in total amazement, with my senses pushed to the pinnacle. My emotions were running high like on a roller coaster. My heart skipped with joy and my heartstrings began strumming themselves. I turned around once again not knowing what lay ahead or which way to go. That brought me to the realization that the path I had taken to get to this ephemeral place wasn't there anymore, nor was there any way further. With a jab of intuition, I blurted out, "Oh, I have no reason to go further."

As I gazed a million miles straight into the boundless horizons and up above the unfathomably deep skies, I found my existence at a place where there was no pull of gravity, no tension, no coercive force of any kind whatsoever. I had become a self-propelling and self-sustaining cosmic phenomenon. My free will was operating in full swing. Moreover, my categorizing and biased mind had given way to wholesomeness and neutrality. I discovered myself as a sentient being with absolute power and in total control over anything, but at the same time, I was selfless and unexploitative. As soon as I realized that, all rays that had been dispersed into the fanciful world around me suddenly aligned and converged into a thin, rigid ray, just like the one I saw in the very beginning, and headed directly towards me. As I closed my eyes, it painlessly and quietly perforated the center of my forehead and a stunningly beautiful eye appeared there.

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