[ WP ] Its been 4 days since the biggest solar flare in history took out the power grid . A well educated homeless man smiles as he sits watching the city burn in the valley below . Why is he smiling ?

Sitting in the dancing lights of what could only be called a funeral pyre for civilization. I find myself recanting my life and decisions. Cradling a sorrowful sick grimace between my dirty and disheveled sandpapered cheeks. Though I did graduate college all that knowledge I'm sure will prove useless now that the herald of chaos has delivered his message. I guess one could call it fate that only weeks ago I was thrust from my own home with little less than a penny to my name. The papers were n't even signed. But here I am on the outskirts of town alone and mildly cold. Watching the city and everything I knew burn. Escaping this blaze would have been impossible had I been home. With neither place to go or food to eat. So here I am keeping some dark vigel watching from a park bench for the 7th day in a row. From this distance it looked as if every home and business plugged into the power grid had spontaneously combusted. As nature once again proves that human achievement is but a fickle and fleeting adaptation. Nature always prevails. Its a corny and over used phrase but now one that may not be heard again. 
 
 I've lost everything. 
 
 The worst part is though that I'm happy this happened. No more facades to keep up. Kissing my bosses ass, pretending I did n't notice the drug abuse and sexual partners my SO so shoddily hid. The odd hours and constricting budgets I maintained to try and keep my family together. No more iPhones or fads, strange generation specific customs or workplace mannerisms, no more clustered streets, no more pop up adds or spam mail. No more having to pretend that I was content with my life for the sake of the sake of appearances. Humanity is scattered if not doomed. Humanity thought it had evolved past the point of needing to fight for survival. Well fighting for survival is all we have left now. 
 
 I'm ok with that. Once the city burns out and if i'm lucky enough to not get eaten before then. I'll start anew. Until then the least I can do to honor the passing of an age is watch the embers die out.
