Story of Ord part 2

Story of Ord part 2

It had been nearly 5 years now since the free thinkers had over thrown the mould makers, and nearly as long since I last seen Ord.
Last I heard he was heading for great things in the discovery of matter transportation. Whatever that means; as for me well I’m still the same old Charles, well not quite the same. Things never felt the same after the incident before the revolution. The day I became a citizen; things just never had the same aura about them, for instance, before I was a citizen I would wake up on a summers day; venture out into my garden and just sprawl out flat on my back on a trampoline and stare at the sky with a feeling of awe. Nowadays I just don’t get that, it’s as if everything I have ever wondered has been answered. The meaning of life was a lot simpler than I had pondered. Yet the strange thing is; even before my venture into citizenship I knew the answer yet it had never appeared into my consciousness.
So now I lay here looking up with an empty mind; I go to work a few hours a week, nothing to hard, but we all have to contribute. At the moment we the people are building giant green zones with parks for children and artist points with beautiful man made views for the painters to replicate.
Across the road from my flat is a recreation centre where people can sample various mind alterations; to be honest its not really my thing, its all a bit strange when you see people trying to pick things up from pavements that aren’t there.
The trouble is every Wednesday they have an advanced mind alteration which causes havoc on the roads as they wander out into the open world seeing all sorts of wonders. Just last week I thought I was getting mugged, turns out this person went on a bad one and believed I was mugging them, so there they where screaming at me, I panicked and tried to calm them down, then they started with the flinching violence. Luckily the street patrol found him and gently helped him back to the centre.
I often ponder if I was happier before the revolution; but turns out I wasn’t.
I don’t remember all to much of the days before I was a citizen, I mean I remember Ord ok and my family, but I can’t seem to remember what I did to keep myself amused. These days everyone is free to do there own thing and now I find myself not knowing what to do. I’ve tried sports and other activities but I lose interest fairly quick.
So what to do, what to do?
At that thought suddenly I heard a loud crashing from outside my window, I looked down and seen a large transport shuttle crashed into the CCTV pole that watches the street; out jumps none other than my old friend Ord.
“Charles, Charles, come quick I have great news”
I looked down from window, my eyes not quite sure to believe, finally after all this time, a spark of excitement rushed through my body.
“hold on I’ll be down”
Quickly I clambered down the stairs and out into the open; across the street starry eyed spectators had gathered outside the recreation centre, all straining to make sense of anything.
“Hurry there is no time to waste, to little time so much to see”
“Ord” I replied,
“It’s been nearly five years since we last spoke, what’s going on?”
“Like I said, there is no time, I will explain on the way”
As he said this I remember faintly the last time he had said similar words to me, at least I felt something I thought;
Do I choose to stay here forever watching the mind benders outside my window, longing for more, or should I follow Ord on his unknown paths that so far have only led me to my current predicament.
Well for me it was an easy choice.
“I’m sorry Ord but I just can’t do it”
“I won’t be another idiot who follows you when ever you beckon me”
“Goodbye”
As I said this my feeling of excitement had changed into something else, I actually felt alive,
Ord looked at me puzzled but with a look of amazement upon his artificial face.
“Very well” he replied
With that he reversed out from the damage and accelerated away without looking back.
I returned to my room and began to tidy around, it had been a while since I had a good clear out. I felt lucky to have this little room and to be able to watch the people from out my window. Yet I do still wonder what would become of me if I had of followed the path put before me…..