ALL IN THE HEAD 1

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The world is forever changing, at times it changes all too quickly, and not all change is necessarily good change nor is it always a wanted change. What if someone or something does not want to accept change? What if someone or something is so unhappy being left behind in the doldrums created by progress that a will is created, some kind of sentience, an energy with a will to fight back and rewind the strides made by progress.

Life is a funny thing. Life is strange. What constitutes as life? If life is memory, energy, a memory of energy from long ago, then can that life come to exist independently based upon that memory and of the energy from what once was so long ago? Can a force build itself in a place, discombobulated from physical form, based on all that went on in that place a long time ago? What if it could somehow go on to recall that past and bring it careering into the present day?

Diego Forlana is returning to the town he grew up in, a place he has not been back to in close to thirty years. It is not for family reasons that see his return, it not to visit former friends lost to a time long before social media took any kind of hold upon the world, and it is not to revisit that youth of his though a revisit is just what it may become.

His first job, his first paying job was one that had him take up a position in the town video store. If he could wish a wish to have a moment for himself then that moment might be back there back then, if only just for a moment. If you somehow were to find a similar store functioning in the world today, then you may as well have yourself a wish, for if these stores still do exist then they are few and extremely far between.

It may have been at a time before DVDs and CDs came along though the local store was already beginning to go digital by the time employment came about. The position that got him into a paying job was that of cataloging each and every VHS and the rarer Betamax tapes the store had, numbering them and entering the numbers and necessary details to an incoming computer system, so if a customer were to come in store inquiring about a movie, it could be looked up as to if the store had it, how many copies there are, if one or all were out on loan or not and when it would be due back in store if it were out.

When this was done and sorted, store owner, George Stone would have Diego take care of front desk, looking after customers as well as have Diego go and run the odd chore or three for him. Mister Stone, yeah, he was a good man, and he did take care of Diego in his own way but why has he done just what it is that he has gone and done?

George Stone is why Diego Forlana is back in town, more precisely, that old video store is what has Diego back in town. In 1992, just when DVDs and CDs really were taking off and doing the rounds, Diego went off to college. Truth be told, his time at that store really set up Diego with the life skills he needed to go forwards in life, he just didn't know it at the time, do any of us know of such things when they happen?

So, it came with great sadness for Diego to find out that Mister Stone had passed away. And it came as a great surprise that George Stone had left the premises, the premises where that video store once gloriously stood, to Diego.

Yeah, it has been 1992 since Diego had last spoken to George so he was more than at a loss for why Mister Stone would leave him those premises. A copy section of Mister Stone's Will had been sent to him along with keys and now Diego is back in that town he grew up in, and he is about to step onto the premises of that old video store for the first time in almost thirty years.

So much grabbed him on return to that store. It is quite possible that no one has gone inside for quite a long time and there would be plenty to reiterate such a thought. The outer aluminum shutters had been vandalized over the years and had become so old at this stage that it would be far too difficult to make anything out written upon it such is the degradation.