Chapter 17

Escrito por Prophet

Tossing and turning, Fairfax couldn’t shut off his mind. With school work it was easy. Long lectures, textbook readings, and his notes on Business and Management can simply be pushed to the back of his head when it was time to sleep before exam day. Even the fatigue of hiking for six hours did nothing but remind him of the needed rest. Aching joints and tired muscles cried out to him for sleep. It all had to wait though. His personal exploration into metaphysical ideologies has left him restless. Everyone was in their bed and the lights were turned off just a few minutes ago. Fairfax couldn’t hold in what he was thinking any more and was too curious to hear from the others to wait till morning.

“Do you feel like this is deja vu?” asked Fairfax, addressing no one in particular.

“It’s the high altitude, get a beer, and go to sleep,” piped up Quinn, still laying there, eyes closed.

“No seriously.”

Wanami turned over and asked, “What exactly made you feel this way?”

“This whole trip.”

“Usually it’s one event that triggers deja vu,” Wanami added.

“I know. It just feels like deja vu, but it’s more like we’ve all been on this journey many times before. Though I don’t know what happens next, I just know we’ve done this before, after it happens.”

Being the only one else in the discussion, since Quinn was quiet and still, Wanami pressed on with the questioning.

“Maybe Quinn was right, the altitude is playing with your senses.”

“Possibly. Or… I don’t know.” Farfax held back for a moment, but continued, “There’s this idea someone ran across me. Imagine if you can the vastness of space. Close your eyes and imagine you can see all of it.”

Wanami closed her eyes and waited patiently.

“Just like the big bang theory suggested, a large explosion. Spits out all of these stars, galaxy, and debris. Their floating out there getting drawn back in by one another’s gravity. Even black holes pulling in on one another. All to the point that the original big bang occured, then it happens again.”

Wanami opened her eyes, “OK, so I’m seeing a never ending flash happening over and over again.”

“Yes. Exactly, an explosion happening the same way because at the start there are no variables to deal with when there’s nothing. Soon, this leads to our creation and we’re reliving the same thing over and over again at some point in time that there’s no real word for. Billions and trillion of years is just too small.”

“If I’m understanding you correctly, we are living the exact same thing. This… body and soul of ours. Reliving it over and over again.”

“Our bodies, yes. Our souls, I think, remember. Not in the way the brain works. It just knows, possibly why I feel the way I do.”

“OK, we don’t live in parallel universes we just live in different points of time. So this reinforces the notion that time is constant.”

“Yes. Time is constant, always. The thing to note is that the only variable that’s different every time is our soul. If our soul has an inclining about our path, we could choose to change destiny.”

“Wait, so if our mind and the environment around us will be the same every time, wouldn’t our actions never change?”

“That’s if you rely only on those factors to make decisions.”

“This is what you call getting in touch with your spiritual side,” Wanami’s tone turned to skepticism. “So if this is possible, wouldn’t that one different action cause a ripple effect for all that’s to follow.”

“Yes, but not everyone relies on this side to make decisions. If they did, every reliving would be different and no one would even have a feeling of deja vu.”

“So what’s your point in all of this? I should become more spiritually or cosmically aware?”

“No. Simply, what do you think you’re going to do different this time around?”

Wanami stared at Fairfax with a look disbelief, half wondering if he truly believed or if she. Turning to Quinn, who was still motionless. She wondered if he heard any bit of the conversation and waited for some sly comment.

It never came. Quinn did hear everything though. His eyes were wide opened. Laying on his bed facing the wall, neither of them saw. Not believing in the actual theory itself, he did have his own beliefs in existence. They were more along the lines of karma and reincarnation. However, it was the last phrase echoed deeply into his soul.

“This time around? I am undoing what I did wrong. Returning something I had lost, to a girl I once cared for, to a person I once loved. That’s what I’m doing different this time. Doing what’s right.” Quinn thought to himself. His hands slid over to his opened backpack on the bed. A backpack he kept to his side at all times. Inside the main pouch, his fingers found it’s way to a small hidden pocket inside. Sealed by a zipper tucked under on of the paddings, he quietly opened the pocket. He gripped the small stone inside and caressed the jagged cut that marred its beauty. He was wide awake, staring straight into the wall. Listening to the pair shuffling under their sheets. Quinn closed his eyes and went to sleep.

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