The story I am about to tell you may seem similar. You might fear that this might be the future in your world. A life without fault, without flaws. This is my reality. I live among the society of the pure, I don't consider myself one of them. My whole life I left out of place, I noticed my flaws, even when my parents almost pestered me into removing or hiding them at all costs. The cost of showing a flaw, is your life. Either death, being cast out of the city which leaves you with nothing, no-one knows if anyone ever survived after being exiled.
Perfection is the only way of life. Humanity is a sign of weakness. Flaws that are visible or even the flaws inside your mind are unacceptable. They see what's inside our minds. Everyone needs to get tested every 4 years, when you are still a child, meaning under 12, you get tested and the flaws get removed. Some in the most awful ways, they will do anything to accomplish perfection, even if it means removing the very thing that makes us human, emotions.
They found a way to remove emotions. By removing the specific memories that are connected to a strong emotion. Anger, jealousy, irritation, depression every emotion that is considered as weak, gets removed. Making every person in our society numb to bad things. Everything in the city is neutral. By removing the darker emotions, things like love are almost unreachable. The things that make love grow for a person are removed, leaving even love almost as an empty feeling.
For whatever reason, I still feel those emotions. Even though they have been removed very often when I was a child, they always returned. Making me ache, as I can't show those emotions or share them with someone. There are even some nights that I feel jealous of the people who don't feel them. The nights that I am fighting my very own thoughts. The nights that I feel lonely and not understood. The nights that make me long for more.
When a person becomes of age at 19, they are removed from their parents, placing them in a studio. This studio will be your living space up until the moment you have found your soulmate, as they like to call it. Two perfect people fitting perfectly together. I personally think this is the biggest scam of our society. They have already planned out with who you'll end up the moment you get born. This way nobody ends up alone and the society will continue to grow its perfection.
Seeing as I am already different from the others in my mind, I already know I am not going to be satisfied with the person they have set me up. Or the person they had in mind has already been set out of the city, making it impossible to be with him. Let's just say I am mentally preparing to be alone in this city forever.
So I guess it's about time you meet the rest of the city.
Welcome to The City of The Pure.

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The City of The Pure
FantasyA story about a girl in The City of The Pure. After many years of living according to their rules, she finally managed to wake up and wanting nothing more than escape. The fear of leaving everything she has ever known behind, just to be able to bec...