UMAN-a short story

UMAN

How is it that two humans can live oblivious to each other while sitting right beside one another?

How can neither of them acknowledge each other's existence?

Are they stupid, or just naive and oblivious?

Did the thought just never cross their mind to acknowledge one another, turn their faces and greet one another?

Or was it that the circumstances were not right for them to turn and face each other yet. Time still hadn't pushed the right buttons. The wind hadn't blown yet in the same direction.

Until the day it did.

One of the two humans decided to look to their left to notice someone they had never seen before.

They were staring straight ahead, not once looking left or right.

The human tried to say hello, but the other human just continued to stare straight forward never looking to the other human who was right beside them.

For a while the other human tried to imitate the human sitting next to them, looking forwards not looking left or right, but then came the day when they just couldn't continue.

Curiosity was eating up the human inside, they wanted to know more about the human next to them.

Who they were, what they liked, what they didn't like, what made them who they were.

The questions burned inside of them for a long length of time, until they decided to ask.

"Who are you?"the other human didn't flinch.

They tried again.

"What's your name?" the other human, as if locked out of a trance, turned to look at the other human beside them.

"Lovelorn." then they continued to look forwards again.

The human felt their spirit break, why didn't Lovelorn want to talk? Were they that uninteresting that they weren't worth their time?

The human thought it was no use and tried to get up and walk away.

But the pull was too much.

The curiosity was burning inside them without sign of stopping.

The spark that had been lit had set a new set of feelings blazing.

The human had never experienced what was happening to them at that moment.

It was all new to them.

The human hesitated as a new thought came into their head,

"Do I want this?'

"Is this good?"

Then the question rang an answer.

"Define good."

The human thought of a response.

Good...good for me and those surrounding?

Good for the unseen and yet to be?

Good for him...Is this good?

The answer remained silent as if to say

"Find what is good yourself."

The human felt confused, Why now? Why me? Why not Lovelorn who was next to me? Should I just forget these strange new things and set them aside?

The human sat on the floor for a while and pondered until they came to a final thought.