[ WP ] You are stranded on a deserted island all by yourself for years , when you get rescued . You express your surprise that people are still looking for you after all this time , when one of the rescuers says that you 've only been gone for three days .

They keep telling me, but I wo n't believe them. 
 
 I recall the sun's slow and arduous journey across the sky; the powerful storms that sent an army of waves against craggy rocks; the coming and going of various migrating birds. 
 
 Three days. That's what they say as they push me onto the boat, that vessel of salvation I had long given up on. 
 
 Years had passed! A calendar of scratches on a cave wall was all the evidence I needed for that. Why would they say any different? 
 
 Had I survived one impossible situation only to find myself in another? The sanity I fought so hard to keep intact was now reaching its breaking point. 
 
 `` Our GPS tracked where the crash was and we were able to triangulate where you might be from there. A kid with a smartphone could have done it. Is n't technology great?'' 
 
 I do n't respond. I am too busy studying his auburn hair, the way his nose rounds out just at the tip, how his tongue licks his lips at the end of every statement; prior to the incident I had not noticed how interesting faces were. 
 
 `` Lucky for you we did find you. You could have been stuck here for years! Can you imagine?'' 
 
 I did n't need to imagine. I had been here for years, subsisting on coconuts and fish and glimmers of hope. It did n't take as long to adjust as you might think. The human mind is quite adaptable. 
 
 This happened. I lived it. The truth is in the reality. Can he not see the state of my body and my clothes? 
 
 `` Hey, are you okay, man? You look kind of concerned. You should be ecstatic, man!'' 
 
 This is a nightmare. It has to be. Another delusional dream meant to uproot my stability. 
 
 I have to wake up. 
 
 I wait for the opportunity, and I jump into the water. It is freezing cold. I know I'm about to die. But I'd rather drown knowing the truth than to live learning a lie.
