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Human Beings
#WritcoStoryPrompt45
Write a story based on this famous excerpt from The Night Slowly Came by Kate Chopin:
I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions. Someone has said it is better to study one man than ten books. I want neither books nor men; they make me suffer…
People say the world is always changing, spinning around its own axis, constantly evolving. But I know it's simply repeating cycles. Everything that happens it's happened before; generation after generation. 'Nothing is new under the sun...', the Teacher says. And the Teacher is right. Change is a lie, a facade, a myth designed to keep us playing the game of life, to keep us interested in life. But now I understand the game and it's rules of change, so what have I to sticker around for?
My mother called me into her room this morning and asked why I didn't enter the art competition she told me about. This is a school competition, by the way. How could I explain to her that I knew what no one else did. Why try to prove my capabilities to a group of indifferent,...
Write a story based on this famous excerpt from The Night Slowly Came by Kate Chopin:
I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions. Someone has said it is better to study one man than ten books. I want neither books nor men; they make me suffer…
People say the world is always changing, spinning around its own axis, constantly evolving. But I know it's simply repeating cycles. Everything that happens it's happened before; generation after generation. 'Nothing is new under the sun...', the Teacher says. And the Teacher is right. Change is a lie, a facade, a myth designed to keep us playing the game of life, to keep us interested in life. But now I understand the game and it's rules of change, so what have I to sticker around for?
My mother called me into her room this morning and asked why I didn't enter the art competition she told me about. This is a school competition, by the way. How could I explain to her that I knew what no one else did. Why try to prove my capabilities to a group of indifferent,...
