So a couple months back I experimented with a writing style and how it would interact with a specific scenario from a type of person’s view. (one who doesn’t generally get to be the narrator) I found it when sifting through old documents and decided to share. Here you go.
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If he had not seen it with his own eyes he would not have believed it.
Of course, even then, he found it easier to come up with preposterous reasons his eyes had been mistaken than to actually admit to what he had just seen. So far the best excuse his very determined mind could come up with is ‘it was a trick of the light’.
As if light has the propensity to trick you into seeing such things. Light is simply electromagnetic energy flying through the air, and what your eyes make of it is up to how the brain decides to sort it, so the only thing that could have tricked him was indeed the same thing that was trying to convince him it was the deception of the light, that is, his own mind.
So a trick of the mind it was, some sort of unprecedented hallucination brought about by fatigue, or malnutrition, or dehydration, or possibly some form of insanity that cannot be explained. He is caught up on sleep and has been eating well, so he is inclined to think insanity. Yes, surely some sort of unknown problems within his brain’s chemistry is suddenly wreaking havoc upon how he perceives reality, he tells himself.
But what is reality but an impossible to fully measure reaction between every force in the universe colliding in different ways? He would surely be unable to think so rationally should he have gone insane, his connection to reality untethered. Which means the only possibility would be that all the events over the entirety of time somehow led up to the extremely unlikely and totally extraordinary event he has just witnessed actually being possible.
If his mind is tricking him through some sort of insanity, then it does not matter if he seems crazy to those around him in reaction to the event he has just believed himself to have witnessed, because they would be correct. Meanwhile, if was indeed perfectly sane and what he has just witnessed is indeed an actual event grounded in perceived reality, then it would seem more crazy not to react.
Therefore, he makes up his mind. He must react to what he has just seen, and under no possible version of these events would this course be perceived as anything less than normal, in the sense that any conclusion onlookers could come to by witnessing these actions be an incorrect conclusion, barring any strange and obscure reasoning being used by said onlookers, which could exist under any possible turn of events.
He waves back to the girl who has just waved at him, a smile lighting up his face.
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Let me know what you think, It’s the first story like this I’ve written, and I’m curious as to how this story is perceived by different audiences.
~Toby
A Geek of Many Trades 