The Event Horizon

The world started collapsing onto itself sometime after I left her. I didn't want to leave, but I felt like I was left with no other choice. I promised to return, but we both knew that I wouldn't let it happen. Lying wasn't my intention -- I felt that it was the only way I could get her to stay away from me. She even made me promise that I would come back immediately if I start to miss her.

What I didn't realize was that leaving her would bring so much suffering. She has never let me go, if she did, then maybe things would have turned out differently. The effect was almost immediate, and the consequences were soon becoming grave. The world turned monochrome, and the periodic depression cycles had increased in frequency and magnitude.

I noticed the first major symptom after flunking an important college course. I failed to note the obvious foreshadowing and ignored the warning, which cost me a few more F'd courses, and then finally forced me to drop out. Well, I didn't really drop out... I was expelled. And when I thought things couldn't go anymore downhill, they went pretty much vertically downwards.

Modern astrophysicists claim that in our universe there exist countless super-massive and extremely dense objects called "black holes". Their unique characteristic is the presence of a vicinity boundary called an "event horizon". Whenever their powerful gravity pulls in any object beyond this boundary, its fate is sealed inside, and its escape is physically impossible. Even one of the most lightweight and fastest-moving particles known to man, photon (a.k.a. light), is incapable of escaping such enormous gravitational pull. What happens beyond the black hole's event horizon is likely not known even to the most advanced alien race in the universe, because there is no instrument can provide data for analysis out of nothing. What we do know with confidence is that the flow of time slows down to a crawl, and eventually stops to a halt when the objects reach the black hole's center, and even the possibility of it being reversed beyond that point.

So, my very own career event horizon has been breached, and there is absolutely no way for me to know what is going to happen. The whole thing seems to have turned into a mess of unpredictable inter-blending thoughts and impulsive actions. Will I be consumed by this darkness or can I still emerge victorious? Time will tell, but as we know, the very concept of time is a blob of uncertainty once we get past that point of no return.