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Brocca

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- Letter from the future

Letter from the future (9 ratings)
         by Brocca
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I finished university - history of nations, very interesting and completely useless studies, but the more knowledge you have in different spheres the better you get to know people. Thanks to the possibility of studying through the internet, we can study more subjects at the same time and check which line of knowledge is nearer ours. Of course you have to show your great ability of computer skills, but for people from my generation, it’s no problem. Contact with great technology from a very small age has helped me to gain practical and theoretical skills. The easiest thing to do is to specialise yourself in that domain, but the development of the information motorway is too banal for me. My parents encouraged me to take proteochemics, but a science career isn’t for me.

One of my friends was encouraging me to take part in a cultural-entertainment programme. You’re supposed to sell your human rights to some agency, the best is Chinese - in the end they are the biggest empire - they arrange your life and all the rest depends on the viewers. Those who have the largest amount of viewers stay in the branch for years. It is of course very dangerous, but then again the problem of earnings doesn’t matter and the problem of thinking what to do with yourself next doesn’t matter either. Everything is planned from the top and happens without your knowledge. I wouldn’t think twice about it, if it wasn’t for Martin. Unfortunately they don’t engage couples for the programme. That’s another thing; there are a lot of people eager to go and not everybody gets through to the qualifying test.

The religious branch has been very popular for a couple of years now, services to do with spiritual advising, have become amazingly popular and think about the income they must be getting from that. An increasingly high number of religious splinter groups, sects and associations have arisen, which help you find yourself back in the real world, when the virtual one, with it’s possibilities of experiencing the most incredible and unbelievable adventures, has become boring and empty. Everyone has a chance to find something that will awaken their spiritual development. Membership to this type of organisation is connected with the necessity of following strict prohibitions and limitations, which involve, for example, boycotting programmes, regular participation in meetings with other believers, and preparing weekly confessions about feelings that have been experienced in virtual adventures.

At the moment I don’t feel the need to take part in those sorts of ventures, but I feel that they are very useful. My sister, who lost all hope of living after joining the "Gay" community, which gathers people of an oversensitive nature, now is full of life and bursting with energy. She spends all her time helping and finding new members for the community.

I have to finish off now; the cosmetic institute is calling me for my body modelling. Unfortunately it’s obligatory. The lack of physical movement causes the deformation of my body and there is a need of a monthly biological renewal. Everyone has to look good all the time, although some do forget that they are constantly on camera and sometimes I have to change the channel with disgust. But that doesn’t concern my viewers; well look for yourselves.


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