Ecce_Signum
Temporal Novice
Dear All,
It is time for me to go now, I wish you all happiness and may you find what you seek in your hearts.
Before I leave I want to invite you take part in one last game:
Imagine if you will you are a teenager and you are at your parent’s home in your bed, you awake at approximately 6am on a very cold and damp morning. You get up and look out of your bedroom window, it is still dark outside. You are contemplating going back to bed when you are suddenly stricken with a deep fear. At first you are not sure what the fear is then you are aware that you have lost something, an item that belongs to you and you must find it at any costs. Your life depends on it.
You spend the next couple of hours searching frantically for it but you can’t find it, finally your mother shouts you and tells you it is nearly time for school. You do not want to stop looking but your mother becomes more persistent and eventually you decide you must go but plan to continue the search on your return. All day you are overcome with sadness, in fact it feels more like grief, the kind of grief you feel when someone close to you dies.
For the next several days you search everywhere you can think of and places that in your heart you know you have never been before. You tell no one of what you are searching for even though it is very clear and specific in your mind, like a photograph has been permanently installed there. After about a week your grief has all but disappeared and you start to wonder if you in fact ever owned such an item.
With doubt fully in control now you consult your family members in the hope that they may know of the items whereabouts. You are very surprised when everyone tells you they have never seen such an item and a little shocked when your mother tells you that you have never owned such an item as far as she knows.
Some years pass and you are now an adult, you have recently moved into your own home and are planning to get married. You had forgotten about the item you so desperately searched for all those years ago.
One morning you wake up at approximately 6am on a very cold and damp morning, you look out of the window and it is still dark. Your wife is still asleep and you decide to go downstairs and make coffee and prepare your self for the days work ahead. A short while later you are rummaging around in your closet when suddenly to your shock and utter amazement you find an item. Your emotions go through the roof and you are totally confused. A mixture of sadness, grief and happiness flood through your body at the same time and you sit on the edge of your bed holding the item and reliving your memories of that day when you had searched for it.
Your wife wakes up and asks you what you are doing, at first you did not really hear her but then aware of her enquiry you ask her where this item has come from. She looks at it for a minute and then says she has never seen it before, she asks why and for the next 40 minutes you relive your story.
The End.
I want you to imagine this with a totally open mind and you may need to read this more than once.
What I want you to do after you feel you have really tried to put yourself in that situation is decide what the item was. It is not necessary a valuable or even greatly useful item, the connection between the feeling that your life depends on it and the grief you felt at losing it when you were younger is unclear. In other words it made no sense to you when you eventually found it except for the fact that the feelings were very real.
This is a true story and an accurate description, one of you already has the answer as I entrusted it to you. Someday another person will give that answer (or as close as possible to it), it may be a day, a week, a month or ten years. There is no way for me to tell, it may also be never which saddens me.
However, I respectfully request you never reveal that answer unless as I hope someone will eventually post it also. Then you can contact that person and together you can contact me, you will know how when the time comes. Then and only then I will reveal the importance of this game, your part in it, the person who gets the answer right and indeed my role here at this time and the reasons I have to leave now.
Good bye and good luck all.
It is time for me to go now, I wish you all happiness and may you find what you seek in your hearts.
Before I leave I want to invite you take part in one last game:
Imagine if you will you are a teenager and you are at your parent’s home in your bed, you awake at approximately 6am on a very cold and damp morning. You get up and look out of your bedroom window, it is still dark outside. You are contemplating going back to bed when you are suddenly stricken with a deep fear. At first you are not sure what the fear is then you are aware that you have lost something, an item that belongs to you and you must find it at any costs. Your life depends on it.
You spend the next couple of hours searching frantically for it but you can’t find it, finally your mother shouts you and tells you it is nearly time for school. You do not want to stop looking but your mother becomes more persistent and eventually you decide you must go but plan to continue the search on your return. All day you are overcome with sadness, in fact it feels more like grief, the kind of grief you feel when someone close to you dies.
For the next several days you search everywhere you can think of and places that in your heart you know you have never been before. You tell no one of what you are searching for even though it is very clear and specific in your mind, like a photograph has been permanently installed there. After about a week your grief has all but disappeared and you start to wonder if you in fact ever owned such an item.
With doubt fully in control now you consult your family members in the hope that they may know of the items whereabouts. You are very surprised when everyone tells you they have never seen such an item and a little shocked when your mother tells you that you have never owned such an item as far as she knows.
Some years pass and you are now an adult, you have recently moved into your own home and are planning to get married. You had forgotten about the item you so desperately searched for all those years ago.
One morning you wake up at approximately 6am on a very cold and damp morning, you look out of the window and it is still dark. Your wife is still asleep and you decide to go downstairs and make coffee and prepare your self for the days work ahead. A short while later you are rummaging around in your closet when suddenly to your shock and utter amazement you find an item. Your emotions go through the roof and you are totally confused. A mixture of sadness, grief and happiness flood through your body at the same time and you sit on the edge of your bed holding the item and reliving your memories of that day when you had searched for it.
Your wife wakes up and asks you what you are doing, at first you did not really hear her but then aware of her enquiry you ask her where this item has come from. She looks at it for a minute and then says she has never seen it before, she asks why and for the next 40 minutes you relive your story.
The End.
I want you to imagine this with a totally open mind and you may need to read this more than once.
What I want you to do after you feel you have really tried to put yourself in that situation is decide what the item was. It is not necessary a valuable or even greatly useful item, the connection between the feeling that your life depends on it and the grief you felt at losing it when you were younger is unclear. In other words it made no sense to you when you eventually found it except for the fact that the feelings were very real.
This is a true story and an accurate description, one of you already has the answer as I entrusted it to you. Someday another person will give that answer (or as close as possible to it), it may be a day, a week, a month or ten years. There is no way for me to tell, it may also be never which saddens me.
However, I respectfully request you never reveal that answer unless as I hope someone will eventually post it also. Then you can contact that person and together you can contact me, you will know how when the time comes. Then and only then I will reveal the importance of this game, your part in it, the person who gets the answer right and indeed my role here at this time and the reasons I have to leave now.
Good bye and good luck all.
