Empathy | m. yoongi

Prologue | ponder

One moment. Everything can come crashing down. Just one moment, one fell sweep, and gone. Just like that. One moment.

Or rather one person. One person can take it all away. A betrayal, perhaps. A breach of trust so to say.

For most, there's a reality they have to face everyday. The thought of the one moment, or one person, coming ever so close. The possibility that the one moment or one person they were dreading is already here.

A wolf in sheeps clothing, so to speak.

Yet they carry on, unknowingly. Oh how I wish they all saw the reality of it. They just sit and dawdle, complain, and go about the day like nothing is coming.

Like nothing is waiting for them. Honestly. If I could do something, be someone.

Or perhaps, just...

understand.

I wish to just comprehend, or understand the intricacies of emotions in general. To be able to alter people's emotions using my thoughts.

But alas, that is only possible through miracles. No human could posses such powers.

And even if one did, it certainly wouldn't be me.

I'm just a girl. In a world. In a universe, filled with a million other planets and stars. It wouldn't be me. I'm not worthy. I would hope it would go to someone more worthy, someone useful.

Someone capable of being a superhero.

That someone is not me.

Nor is it anyone I know.

Except for one person, maybe.

This is just a wish, just a fantasy, lost to the depths of the mind, lost in time and space, never to be remembered.

And yet I ponder.

If one person could posses such powers, wouldn't it turn out to be a complete and utter disaster?

Which means there is absolutely no point in putting your faith in one reckless human being being for all your salvation. That one "superhero" could be horrible and abandon the human species, or act exactly like an irresponsible person.

It would be pointless.

Like my existence.

But isn't life itself pointless?

Why live when you're going to die anyway?

Living isn't an action, it's more of a choice.

I chose to live. My family, on the other hand, did not.

It is a fairly simple choice. Get through life, and you are rewarded at the end.

Like a giant board game, for example.

Get through the board game, and you get a reward at the end.

If only life was as simple as that.

As simple as a giant board game.