Ellipses (The Doomsday Special)

It finally came. The day that everybody feared. Some call it 122112, or for more drama, the “end of the world”. As for me, I’d like to call it “Doomsday” because it sounds like a holiday of some sort. Personally, I didn’t believe that the world would end today. But I guess there is an itsy-bitsy part of me which kind of believes it. I was eager to have a great day yesterday because I wouldn’t want to be my typical lonely self by the end of the world.

I had lunch with my friend-slash-orgmate together with her boyfriend. It was the day she introduced us to each other since we’ve only been seeing each other through video calls. At least I met someone new before the world ceased to exist. After our lunch I watched a good film, Rurouni Kenshin. Although I was alone, it felt really great to see that film. It was very nostalgic. Certain familiar scenes from the animé flashed in my mind as the movie progresses. I was happy that it was the last movie I watched before the world ends. Finally, I wrapped up my Doomsday Eve with a dinner bonding with my kpop friends. We haven’t been complete on get-togethers for a long time that’s why we took our time together even though some of us still had to go to work today. Dinner was awesome – we were really, and I mean REALLY, full – although dessert was not, but you know, we can’t have it all even if it’s almost the end of the world. Perfection is too fickle to achieve.

We were still together when the clock struck twelve, opening the doors to Doomsday. I was just happy that I did not have to spend this day alone. I guess that time, I felt really grateful for spending the not-really last few minutes of our lives together. At least I know I would end my life happy.

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I woke up with 11 hours gone since Doomsday began. I was alone at home but I wasn’t lonely. I had the most extraordinary Doomsday Eve celebration so I had no worries whatever is to come this day. Even though the weather was weird today (it was warm and sunny then suddenly it rained then it stopped and it was cool and windy in just about three hours) and the moonrise was early (fifteen minutes before three in the afternoon and I can already see the moon clearly) it just dawned on me that maybe, just maybe, the world has ended already and a new world has come.

I might have slept through the end-of-the-world happenings but I guess I woke up to a new world now. Maybe it’s time for us to shift our paradigms and look at things differently. Just like an ellipsis, which may mean an end or a start of something new, Doomsday is just preparing us for a better story plot in this book called Life.