[ WP ] After 267 years you finally learn the truth about your immortality ...

I've always lived my life alone in a world i thought was empty, desolate, and held no purpose or meaning. Sure, I've had `` friends'' and family but I've never really felt anything for them. All I ever felt was a sense of suffocation from their expectations of me. Will I ever amount to anything when I get older. 
 
 I grew up living my life like that, forcing and pushing myself to learn new things, to become what other people want me to become. The fear of not being able to meet expectations made time drag on like a snail crawling on the sea floor. It got to a point where I wanted everything to stop. Between the studying and sleeping, the want to stop feeling the weight of expectation upon my shoulders, the want to stop asking myself if I can do it kept growing and growing. Every day was grueling, every hour, every minute, every second felt like an eternity. 
 
 As time went on, the expectations grew. The more I learned, the more eyes laid upon me and measured my worth. I kept learning and learning wondering when will this end? It was n't until I was 45 did I realize something was wrong with me. Those eyes that tried to see worth in me started to see fear, a monster. It was n't until those eyes did I realize that I had n't aged a bit for 20 years. 
 
 My life changed that day. What I lived for was n't to climb to the top of the mountain to see a sky empty of expectations anymore. I wandered for 222 years experiencing nothing but fear and loss. Fear of being seen as a monster, and the loss of the expectations from others. I learned that even I can not help from expecting things from myself, but what I expected not even I knew. I wandered the world trying to find a way to restore this feeling of expectation until one day, I found myself in a cemetery. That's where I met *her*. 
 
 I was standing in front of a tombstone of my parents years before and wondered what they were up to and how I could ever rid myself of this ever living body. I stood there asking myself these questions, hoping I would find an answer. That's when she saw me and came to me and asked one simple question- `` What brings you here?''. It was at that moment everything clicked. I felt something akin to ice, slowly melting and turning a wheel inside me. I realized that my time froze so many years ago because I've never thought for myself before. I've never asked myself these self empowering questions before. I've never done anything for myself. 
 
 That was the day time returned to me and I got to see what life is really all about. 
 
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