Our Future

Time played again. The bullet came whizzing through the glass of the window and stopped in front of Gabriel for a split second. Gabriel had stopped it but it was shaking in its spot.

“Get them out, I can’t hold it,” he shouts.

I push Daniel towards the back of the room where there’s a door that leads to the back alley. I grab Joey and the guard follows quickly despite being freaked out by Gabriel’s power.

“What are you guys?” asks the guard warily once we’re out the back door.

The bullet is released and you can hear it bouncing around the room searching for something to embed itself in. A victim to claim.

I was worried about Gabriel but he emerged quickly unscathed.

“That’s not important. They’re in danger for God’s sake,” I curse.

“We can’t just leave these people here,” Joey exclaims.

“I’ll tell them they’re in danger. Get them out,” the guard orders taking off.

He disappears back inside.

I see the sun glint off of something. Another flying bullet. It comes whizzing through the air and pierces Daniel in the lower back. He’s on the ground again withering in agony.

“Daniel!” Joey exclaims.

I try to stop time but I can’t concentrate. My head is spinning. The world’s spinning. It won’t stop and it all seems hopeless. Is hopeless. The world was destined to end one way or another because people weren’t willing to change to keep it alive and good people like Joey and Daniel were going to suffer the consequences and die one way or the other. I couldn’t change, because I had no power over people and what they wanted.

It was simplistically easy to please people. You give them a home, money, technology, safety, food, water and they’ll pretty much be happy. They don’t care that some of these things are hurting the earth. Cracking it. Causing it to fall apart. Causing it to be destroying. In order to change our world, our future, we needed to collectively do it because we cannot do it alone. Single people can start movements but it’s the followers that support them that make the change possible. Without all of us, nothing would be possible. Our future is in danger and if we didn’t join together the world will end up a waste land, where nothing and no one can live. Your future children could be born into a world where they only get to live forty years because of how much of their future we destroyed. We make our future. We change it. Make our future better for us.