As I type, constantly searching for some inspiration in this blank piece of electronical paper, I see nothing. I then decide to look out of the library window, where I currently find myself. People are everywhere. Some are rushing about, and some are contemplating their next move. Some are on their phones, and some people are with other people just simply walking in a direction that will eventually take them to their final destination, wherever that may be.
Inside the library the story is much the same, but with less phones, less noise and less rushing about. So in actual fact, its completely different. Everyone sits at their desks with their eyes locked on to the computer screen in front of them. Occasionally some people get up, pack away their equipment and leave. Some people do not pack their belongings away but they do still leave. I believe this is in an attempt to save their working space as it is extremely busy. As I sit here my mind starts to wander into nothingness. Perhaps today is not the most thought provoking day i've ever had, but I will try to give you all my imagination has to offer in this current moment.
There is a sign next to me which reads ‘Items left on tables for more than 15 minutes will be removed to make space for other library users’. I wonder how much this is enforced as the man next to me has been gone for at least 30 minutes. Is there a particular room that he has gone to I wonder, other than the toilet? There must be an area in this library where people go to just disappear into their thoughts. There has to be. I decide to leave my desk and walk towards the exit at the top of the stairs, leaving my belongings behind.
Out of nowhere and in the blink of an eye I see it, the room where everyone must have gone too. I enter. It is like no other room in the building and strangely seems to have appeared as if from nowhere. As I enter, every single colour you could ever imagine hits me like a beam of sunlight. The assortment of colours line the walls of the room, and there is a switch on the side which I discover, changes the entire decor to which ever interior you desire.
This room has the most comfortable seating I have ever known before. It has a vending machine that will give you any food type you could ever want. Next to this vending machine sits a television screen on which you can find every single genre of moving image, that has ever been televised or made. Each person has their own room, but this is not what the room is made for. These items are just optional extra’s to the main event which is of course, virtual reality. The most comfortable seating ever to exist turns into a flat bed in one touch of a button. As I lay down facing upwards I close my eyes and some sort of flannel like material covers my face, and then, it happens.
I am transformed into a place that can only be described as paradise. There are no people here and my mind is completely set free. I rest. As the sun shines down on the vast waters that I now lay in, I feel the satisfaction of eating and drinking the most incredible food and drink without having to physically do this. I sleep without sleeping, I laugh without laughing. All of my senses feel complete and yet none of them have even left the library desk.
I am suddenly overcome with a sense of accomplishment as I open my eyes feeling completely relaxed and fulfilled. I leave the room and return to my desk. I write. I read. I complete everything in much less time than before. I start again.
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