MY SHORT STORIES

Dying realization.

      It was cold. Water surrounded my body, clogging my ears and soaking my clothes. The salty water dragged me, hugging me to my comforting death. The crash was never expected, but who would expect such a thing? If I was surrounded by survivors it wouldn't matter, the ocean has claimed me, my body. You would think drowning would be excruciatingly painful, but it's peaceful when you realize you can't make it. The anxiety leaves you, your thoughts get fuzzy, your airway shuts off due to laryngospasm, then your heart stops and your brain dies. That's going to happen to me in a few seconds. Currently water is filling my lungs, unable to stop coughing, forcing me to try to breathe in the water. The panic is leaving like I mentioned, my brain is dying as I said before. Drowning. I never expected this, quite a bland way to go, but more eventfully than old age.
How can something so fast, yet so slow be possible? We will never know. I realized something while I continued to drown. There are some things that we will never be able to fully comprehend. Human nature is to try and learn everything, to become elite. Almost as if people had read 'The Giver' and just forgot the whole plot. That the more we learn the more robotic and inhuman we get. It's very sad to realize just now, as I give into my fate, that is the future we might have, something that would pull the curtains on the world. Leaving our world trashed, lifeless, and useless. Making it so that if it were possible for life to evolve, the Bacteria would kill it along with pollution. Possibly leading it to adapt to a horrible life, with radioactive waste too. Not forgetting the possibility that what if before earth, on planets such as Mars and Venus, they had their own life that ended their demise.
            It's dark to think but the ocean overflowing making the earth just water would be cool too. We have the hot, toxic planet Venus. The oxygen filled, flooded water planet Earth. Then the dry, burren, lifeless planet Mars. That would be cool, to me at least. Even though I am surrounded and being slowly taken out by water I am still interested in it. Funny right? I guess what's sad is that my thoughts will never be retrieved like my body possibly will. My new discoveries will never be found, never thought up like how I did. To think, my last moments would be the realization of our corrupted home, Earth. I take this moment to close my eyes, so they won't stay open for eternity, and then fade away. Forever gone, no longer existing. My fate has been sealed.