Don't Worry



A boy, around 6 years old, had been very good at juggling, tossing, catching, bumping, all of that stuff, he did a lot of things which involved it up until he was six when he needed to use it. This boy's name is Ted, let's say. The boy buys a bunch of rubber bands and puts them all together to make a hallow ball with rubber on the outside, he called it the Life Ball. It had many different symbols, numbers, colors, letters, and a lot of other pictures on it, but whichever number, pictures, and letters you saw depended on your perspective, your personal point of view. It took him one year to invent a pill that would make him need nothing to survive. He didn't have to sleep, nor eat, nor drink, nothing. He began to play with his Life Ball 24/7, skipping school, skipping family time, skipping everything, he sat in his room playing with his ball. He just tossed it up in the ceiling and caught it. Three years went by, his parents crying, wondering what he was doing. Nobody could shake him, they tried in many different ways, he just kept bouncing that ball. One day, a psychologist came by and asked him what he was doing. The boy said, "Playing with my Life Ball." He kept playing with it. The psychologist asked, "What is that?" The boy replied, "It is a ball that keeps track of how much time you have left in your life." The psychologist wondered, "How does it work." The boy answered, "Before you die, you get very, very weak, and seconds before I die, I will struggle with this ball, then will I know when I die." The psychologist was stunned at how smart the 10 year old boy was, he was also stunned by his philosophy, he left the house, thinking that the boy had the right idea. Years and years, soon decades and decades went on, when the child was ignored all this time, until one day, when Ted was 68 years old, a man came in and asked him, "What are you doing?" Ted answered, "Playing with my Life Ball." The man asked Ted, "How does it work? What does it do?" Ted answered, "It is a ball that predicts when you die, it works because right before you die you generally get weaker. Before I die, I will struggle with juggling this ball and when it drops, I drop." The man asked, "Why is it important to you?" Ted replied, "So then I know when I die, so I do not have to fear anymore!" The man asked him, as if he had planned this conservation on the exact word, "But what is the point of worrying when you die when you are already dead?" Ted kept playing, "What?" The man touched Ted's head and said, "Look at you, you have been playing this game for 68 years." The man released his hand off Ted's head. "You have never lived a bit of your life, maybe only 6 years, then you worked on making this ball and the pill to keep you needless. You should have not worried about death when you could have lived in life! That was your chance, and now you only have..." the man touched Ted's head again. "...2 years left" he released his hand once again. "You spent your life on worrying about death, and you must realize that that's not worth living, if I lived worrying about death, I would be excited for death." Ted struggled and stopped tossing the ball and catching it. His face began to turn red and sweat, "But my time... It's all gone..." "That's what you were looking forward to, what you were focusing on the whole time, and it was a waste. Is there any point in living?" the man asked. Ted dropped his ball, "My life is ruined... I wasted 62 years of my life on nothing and only lived 6 years of life..." "The bad thing is, we don't have time machines." the man said. "I can't redo it all?" Ted asked. "No. This was your cause, and now the effect came back and struck you hard. Cause and effect..." the man said. "Go spend the last two years of your life, that's the only gift I'm giving you." "Who are you?" Ted asked. The man looked up at him and smiled, then walked out of the room. Ted tried to follow him, but the man had already left.