I was eleven for the Y2K thing, and I remember hoping it would happen. When asked, my grade seven teacher basically said: "all of the machines in the world go dead. No cars, no computers, no phones. The world would cease to be connected and we would form seperate societies like the early humans. Grande Cache would be okay compared to most places in the world because we're small so we wouldn't start rioting like in the cities, and many of us are used to living off the land already. We'd organize and form a tribal society, we'd have to hunt and gather and sit around fires because we've lost television, that sort of thing."
"Cool," thought eleven-year-old Robin.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
I'll make an appointment in my calendar for December 22nd to check if I'm still around.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi