[ WP ] A strange genetic shift has occurred and every member of an entire generation has been made immortal and invulnerable , at the cost of reproductive ability .

I was 18 in 2009 when the event occured. 
 
 Nothing happened at first, everyone reveled in their new found abilities, we were just like the deities that we had once worshipped. 
 
 Slowly however, we grew detached from our humanity.The need for sustenance, sleep, love and care left us. Slowly but surely we transcended, those of us who were not affected by the genetic shift were swiftly eliminated, we considered it a mercy to them. They need n't need to live amongst the gods, to tremble in our shadows.We had not eliminated all of them but it was enough that we considered it a cleansing. 
 
 To think there was once a time where silly insignificant crimes such as genocide or murder even existed.Following the cleansing we created the world in our image, we advanced far more than the unaffected could have ever done so and we created a utopia where we ruled.We called this utopia Olympus for it was a truly a pantheon, a celestial city created solely for the residency of the gods. 
 
 There were those of us who retained our humanity, those of us who felt remorse, fear, horror and indignation at the atrocities that we were committing. Those amongst us that felt this way were exiled from Olympus, as nomads tasked to travel the world forever living in the shadow of the colossal undertaking that had levelled the world of all those we considered impure. 
 
 Ultimately however, it was our pride and hubris that lead to the fall. 
 
 At some point in time during our campaign to systematically rid the world of those who were not of divine appointment we noticed that we could not spawn younglings, it had not mattered then because everyone who was like us, did not realise the gravity of what that meant. 
 
 We were selfish, we were reckless, we did nothing to further anything but our own goals 
 
 The rule of the gods lasted another 60 years before we finally noticed that something had gone horrendously wrong, one of the others became unresponsive, catatonic if you will.We had noticed that over time we had gotten slower but we dismissed it, we never considered the grim reality. 
 
 It did not take very long for the rest of us to realise that despite our ageless shells our bodies were still slowly but surely degenerating.Just like those who were unaffected, we had realized too late that we were far more human than we would ever have imagined. 
 
 Unfortunately during all this time, we had grown stupid, we had left our mortal intelligence behind and swapped it for divine pride.None of us knew how to fix what would eventually destabilize our rule. 
 
 I now think back to the time where one of the nomads turned up at the gates of Olympus spouting rubbish and nonsense about aging and how we were all doomed to be `` locked in'' and that he had the cure and it lay in human science. We scoffed and threw the doomsayer out and spat and hurled abuse at he who we considered weak for the consorted with those we considered undesirables. 
 
 Now i see the true irony of divine intelligence, we purport that we know all but we are but men. We are fallible and we have caused the downfall of humanity and we would be forever forced to observe from our mortal shells as Gaia took the earth back from us. 
 
 As i lay here, my mind trapped in my mortal husk.I can only feel more human as the days pass.As my immortality would eventually become the prison in which my soul would be eternally trapped in.I've gone sane and insane multiple times, i think ive seen what God is and what we are all here for.I think this is purgatory, i cant see and i think ive been here forever. 
 
 I think im ready to die, but i can not. 
 
 I hope that the next inhabitants of the earth will be able to free my mind from this mortal shell, that i may speak forth the warnings of our ways.To perhaps right the wrongs we have once done. 
 
 
 I am now 841 years old
