“15 years, I had to endure the greatest pain, suffering, and enlightening that I will ever and had ever experienced throughout my entire life. For 15 years, I had studied and observed, everything that humans know up until now. All of the knowledge that humans had ever gained, I had obtained in only 15 years. And, you know what? I hate it. I despise it, I despise it all so much; yet I feel a respect for it that I pray to whoever is out there that controls all of this that it is mutual; I respect all of these things, all of these things that had me feeling truly free, like a bird flying through the sky, like an angel floating through the infinite space of heaven. I saw vast landscapes like you’d never imagine; I saw high mountains, deep, dark forests, lakes, oceans, whole galaxies. I have seen all that there is, and now, I am truly satisfied. Satisfied with the happiness and the hatred, with the death and birth, the darkness and the light. The wisdom granted to me by the books that the human race has created has given me gratitude; and regret. I regret knowing all of this, as with all of this knowledge, I was bound to create new specs of wisdom; My own, and with that…

With that I realized that this is all a lie, an illusive, tricky, despicable lie that needs to be punished for being so. All that you thought of as beautiful, amazing, fantastic… that is all truly the opposite. You say that I am the one without sanity, when, in reality, you are all the misinformed ones. You take ugliness for beauty; lie for truth, you look at something and if it looks even remotely good in your eyes it is automatically good, you don’t analyze what is beneath. You don’t analyze the truth."

Quote from my perspective change story based on "The Bet," by Anton Chekhov.