Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Monday, March 25th, 2019
Chapter Four: Idealism
During his long travels across the gulf between star systems, on the
search for living worlds, Jim had tens of thousands of years to reflect on his
identity, the strangeness of it, and on his long experience.
It occurred to Jim that in many ways he had become a repository of the
ideals the Ancient People had abandoned when they joined the Collective,
abdicating their responsibilities of self-governance to the Continuum.
It was as if every individual he had touched as he was emerging from the
great sleep, or freeing himself from the prison of sequestration, left an
indelible imprint of themselves on him, and imprint of their regrets, their
criticism and their shame for what had become of themselves and their people.
This caused Jim to be fiercely independent and strident in the pursuit
of justice, he felt as if the Collective’s need for those principles had
amalgamated itself in his consciousness.
In many ways Jim felt as if he was not himself, he had touched every
individual in the Collective and they had each left a part of themselves with
him, there were moments in his long journeys when he understood that they had
left more than their just principles with him, they had also left memories,
pieces of their personhood which became a part of his own identity when he
gathered himself for the push to break free from the bonds of his prison.
Regardless of where each fiber in the tapestry of his personal beliefs
came from, Jim saw the needs of the Collective within him as a matter of his
own personal conviction
He claimed it for himself, and he believed that his commitment to those
ideals, to the ideals of each one of those sleeping and sequestered members, secured
his entanglement with them on the quantum level, and that it was perhaps the
secret behind the mystery of his unique ability to traverse the cynergenic
field of Home World and the Central System.
There was a purpose that he had to fulfill, and he was being aided in it
by those who had passed into dormancy before him.
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