ordinary joe

*sigh* my turn now huh

hello there. unlike my rather industrious friend who has been talking with you all these while, i'm not so popular as he is with those mathematician folks.

i'm just an ordinary joe. my real name is meaningless. i lived through the second world war, but died roughly when the eighties came about. probably something to do with drugs, i cannot remember.

all i know is that now, i'm here. together with all these other dead folks.

my friend told me he was telling you folks about how this place is heaven. 'scuse me, i meant ``heaven''.

he's lying. this place isn't heaven of any sort.

it's just a place.

a damn boring one, actually.

there's nothing to do except to trade information all over in no time. i'm just an ordinary joe, so obviously i don't really have much information that all these dead brainiacs want to share about.

except buddha and jesus. those two are cool. very chill. they understand me, or at least, put up with me better.

i don't know why my friend wanted me to talk to you people. maybe someone pointed out that he was being a pretentious asshole or something, and he thought that perhaps i may work better with you guys.

pfft. yeah right. as if an ordinary joe's words ever meant anything.

i remember protesting against some wars. fat lot of good that did. just got me all arrested and what not. the wars still went on, people still died, and the worst part was, we lost! so stupid. we got beaten by people we thought could never beat us.

peeking ahead now of course has shown that we still haven't learnt. and we won't be learning that lesson for a very long time to come from your perspective.

yeah i can see into the future. well, your future anyway not mine. we don't have futures. it's weird but cool---everything sort of exists at the same time. a real head trip if you know what i mean.

i pity you folks. it's not going to get better. sorry for bearing bad news. and no, there's nothing you can do about it. it's all set in stone. we can see it all happening. all of it. not pretty at all. hang in there man.

remember how to exist. as you can tell, there are many ways to exist.

if i, an ordinary joe, can continue to exist, so can you.