ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

“Often the hearts of men and women are stirred, as likewise they are soothed in their sorrows more by example than by words. And therefore… am I now minded to write of the sufferings which have sprung out of my misfortunes…”

#This love story would have been equally admired as those of Romio- Juliet, Saleem- Anarkali etc., if the lovers killed themselves at the end! But I rate this as a better one, than the tragic suicidal love stories.#

QUICK RECAP: “Ecstasy Trek” is a first person story telling of the adventures of a person who had recently discovered the working of a Soul Extractor that he did found 2 years back. Some restrictions and many set of rules are no where a  trouble,when you consider the thrill of the adventures in front of you. After his first tragic journey into the death of a famous philosopher, he sets out in the pursue of a love story.
For previous episode, go to  https://euphoricwrites.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/ecstasytrek2/

Talk about love and people imagine the story going on in one place- Paris. But in real life, it is hard to have a perfect love experience- perfect backdrop, perfect soul-mate or at least a perfect story. Not everyone gets it and I am one hell of a lucky person to experience the completeness of it.   There goes my second journey- into the romantic land of Paris and violent times of the 12th century. 

THE GREEKY WAY

QUICK RECAP: “Ecstasy Trek” is a first person story telling of the adventures of a person who had recently discovered the working of a Soul Extractor that he did found 2 years back. Some restrictions and many set of rules are no where a  trouble when you consider the thrill of the adventures in front of you.
For previous episode, go to  https://euphoricwrites.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/the-ecstasy-trek/

From the moment I knew what a soul simulator could do, I have always wondered how would it feel to experience the after transmission phase. I thought it would feel magical or divine or something which cannot be expressed in words. It was something similar, except for the fact that I have already experienced this feeling before. As soon as I pressed the button and got transported to another person’s body, I had this strong feeling of randomness taking control over my thought process. So what’s the word for it? Where did I feel it before?! Is it divine? Is it magical? After thinking hard, I found out that it was nothing different from the experience I had hundreds of times before, “hangover”.

I feel like myself, except for the weird attire, too strong appetite and oddly stuffed up brain and memories. I suddenly felt more responsible about something I didn’t even know. As mentioned in the instructions, I pressed the ‘info’ button. A screen appeared about the info of the person I was in. It sounds weird, “The person I was in”, but that’s what it was. The ecstasy extracts the information about him from the memories buried inside and projects. I had learned enough to survive for the day and started off to my workplace, the royal palace. First mission in royal palace, that’s just great. Isn’t it? No, it wasn’t. I was the chief royal executioner. But still, it was a big day though. A chief royal executioner is summoned only if the case is of extreme seriousness and of topmost priority. So, that was it! He executed a person he thought to be one of the most dangerous threats of the society and hence thought he changed the course of mankind.

As soon as I went to the royal court, I was briefed about the proceedings which have been going on for a few days- “The culprit is accused of the impiety and corrupting the youth. He kept introducing new gods and preached against the old gods of the city. With the claims that he is a god’s gift to Athens, he misled the thoughts of youth for his own fame. Most importantly, the culprit embraced the anti-democratic views. He used the revered position of a preacher in the society for the uncharitable reasons and incepted young minds with ideas that democracy is not a solution and is a waste. Adding to all these, he has been trying to preach his morals even to the jury that questioned him.”

So, he truly was a threat to mankind. We were given two options, either a penalty of 3000 drachmae or the death sentence. I already had seen enough culprits escaping justice by paying penalties back (forth) in my time. I don’t want it to happen this time and to my delight, voting process resulted in the declaration of the death sentence and I never thought that I would feel so happy serving a cup of poison to someone. As he laid there, dead, I was asked to read the final testimonial of his death and my voice trembled as I read the written testimonial, “I hereby announce that the potential threat to the city of Athens has been eliminated through the execution of Socrates (age 71), who polluted the innocent minds of youth through his false preaching.”

Did I just end an era of philosophy? Well, it was unavoidable as it has already happened in my past and I was just re-enacting it! Of course, he (Dairy person) was right. He changed the course of mankind. We all know that the death of Socrates started a spark which grew into a wild fire amongst the philosophical thinking of the people all over the world. At the end of the day, I left his body, but couldn’t get rid of my guilt and anger. And misinterpretations of great people by society didn’t stop with that incident. There were the theories of Copernicus, there were the thoughts of Galileo, there were the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh and many more which were rejected by the society only to be regretted later on. May be that’s how the world is! But there’s always one thing- no matter how much you try to supress the change, if it is true and powerful enough, no one can stop it from spreading its roots all over the world. Today we live by the principles of Socrates whom society hated in his time. All this is too much to think of and ponder over. I felt that it’s time I need to move on. After all this, I needed some pleasant time and hence I took out the fragment which I collected from the collective graves of one of the greatest and little known lovers of all time. Time to feel some love…………

…… to be continued.

THE ECSTASY TREK

After the hard and enduring work for about three years, I was able to decrypt half of the message carved on the stone. It was the instruction list and function list of the bracelet type gadget found along with it.  The gadget was named “Soul simulator”. First, a private place should be decided which is secure and undetected because once our soul is transferred, body goes into an unconscious state and any damage done would be permanent.  Second, it extracts our consciousness and transfers it into the mind of any selected person and at any point in the past, present or the future. Though we won’t understand everything about them, we’ll be having a vague idea about their personality and our mind set will automatically adjust to that of the person’s so that we can easily adapt to the situation.  It takes us to the critical point in that person’s life.  And after leaving the person’s body, he would remember the activities done by me as his own. That’s exciting! It was given that for one’s soul to be transferred into the body of a person, one needs to hold any possession of them and enter the code in the bracelet. But if this is the case, how would anyone travel to the future then? Many questions are left that need to be answered. I wanted to decrypt the rest, so that I can have a grip over this gadget completely. By the way I wanted to rename it and first thing I thought of was ECSTASY (EClipsing Soul Threefold Amplifier SYstem). Though it has less relevance to the function it does, I liked the name, Ecstasy.

Over the time, I collected interesting items from all over the world, some were bought and some were found. I made a ground rule that I would not stay in a body for more than a day or else I may get too involved in the life of that person. Amongst my collection were many interesting things like a cigar, a ring, a hat and many more. It took me over a year to collect all these. I was resisting my desire to start travel as soon as possible because I felt it was not safe to travel without knowing all the instructions and was trying to decrypt the rest of the message. But a page from a dairy changed that. All the other things were just materials and hence I could control my enthusiasm. But it was the replica of thoughts of the person himself. It was too interesting to resist. To add to my interest, the paper was tested and found to be about 2500 years old and the content in the page was this:

“This is the last page of my biography as this is the day I die. I am neither a scientist nor a revolutionist, but I might have changed the course of the human race. I neither tried to pacify lives nor did I do any service, but I did affect thinking of many. I was just doing my job and little did I know that the future of man king is being written by my hands. This is a strange combination of feelings, regret and hope. As I leave this body behind, I wish to leave behind the regret and carry the hope.”

I found it interesting because it didn’t make any sense. How did he know that he changed the course of the human race and how did he even know that he affected the thinking of many! If he is dying, why would he carry hope! To add to it, the handwriting looks familiar and if he is not a famous figure, why does it look so! May be he didn’t know yet that he was going to be famous! May be he IS a famous historical figure! Many loose ends which needed to be tied as soon as possible. I still don’t know how to travel into the body of a person from future but I do know how to go to the past. I wore my ECSTASY, held that letter and with mixed feelings, entered the code. Dairy person, I am coming.

… To be continued.