Creativity

[Lose 881]

Hey,
 
You might be wondering who I am. You might be wondering where you are. I'm just going to tell you right here, right now - it doesn't matter if you don't know. Nothing matters other than that you hear this, maybe give hope to your people. I'm going to tell you a lot of information, and it's going to be quite confusing at first. But just listen to me. Listen to anything, everything, take it all in and remember it. Don't let it escape you.
 
Today is March 27, 2038, and this is my final transmission, but I have to bring you up to date in events before I can tell you the most important thing.
 
Back in 2020, where you are now, you were still joking about COVID-19. Even in the face of the global pandemic, you still managed to make light of it. Fast forward a year, and things are starting to die down. The meme is starting to die, people are sitting in their rooms, bored out of their minds. Some global leaders have caught COVID by then, but they have all made it and survived the disease, for now. You're starting to feel hopeful, with the cure being ever closer to getting released.
 
Fast forward two more years, it's now 2023. The cure has hit a roadblock. You are still completely calm, thinking this will all blow over in just a few more months. You sit back, relax, and eat sparingly, but you've become used to the slight hunger now. In 2025, you start to worry. The cure has not progressed at all in two years, you are running out of food, and the food suppliers are starting to weaken. Food became more and more scarce every week.
 
2028, things start to turn for the worse. COVID-19 has mutated, making countries have to practically restart cure research. You start to wonder if there ever will be a cure. You shake those thoughts away, though, as you have more pressing matters on hand, such as food. Farmers cannot keep up with the demand for food. You slowly get used to the pressing hunger, but you don't think you will ever fully transition.
 
Seven years later, and things have taken a huge turn. COVID-19 has become more and more severe, with deaths now rising quicker than people are becoming infected. Your friends and family die around you, your classmates during your online classes drop in the middle of studying, and governments fall as world leaders succumb to the disease. The world has become an eat-or-be-eaten place, with people going as far as cannibalism for survival.
 
Now, in 2038, the last food storage's have been raided by people who have banded together into groups. The only reliable source of food is the occasional worm or insect that will come along. I decided there is only one hope, to maybe send a message to the others. We found the virus's weakness, but it's too late. We can only hope you can exploit it. 
 
Now, you still don't even know who I am.
It is March 27, 2038, and I am... you. I am you from 18 years from now. Where you were when you started reading this, look around, at the destruction, it is the same place. Can you notice some similarities? 
 
Now time to tell you the most important thing; the virus's weakness.
The virus is harmless against one thing and one thing only. 
Creativity.
 
In your time, in 2020, creativity has been drained practically wherever it can. The news, schools, even your own family life. There's no variety, all routine, and if you go against the guidelines, you get punished. The virus thrives because the news has lost all creativity. There are no creative articles, just companies copying the same story and changing a few words for when a new update comes out. And what makes it worse? You all take it in. You all know it exists, and some of you may be against it, but do you act on your words? No. You just complain about the lack of creativity, while not doing anything about it because you lack creativity yourself. And since creativity has been drained, nobody can think of a way to fix what they, inevitably, have created.
 
I hope this will help you. I hope this will save at least some of you from what is probably still inevitable. The world needs a return of creativity in all places of the world, in the hope to stop what may become due to greed. 
 
It was a pleasure talking to you. 
It was a pleasure talking to myself.
 
~Lose

[Sacrifice 2,280]

Approved.

It is an excellent piece of writing. I really like the fact how you have stood up to shed light on two major drawbacks of society today; Not taking the pandemic seriously and lack of creativity. It is true that where some people are scared to their deaths, there are people who still live by the motto "What is written will happen so why worry about anything". What we need to understand is how our actions at present will shape not just our own future but also affect many other people. 

Additionally, we as a human race complain a lot when we could be taking steps to prevent something or to make something happen. In this case, we can practice new skills and put our mind to thorough thought and ourselves become creative. I personally like how you have managed to combine the two concepts together. It is true, that the way education system works today, if the students don't try to find a way to polish their own skills, we as a race would soon bend to our knees.

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You never fail to amaze us with your amazing work. Keep it up! Eager to see more work from you. 

[Lose 881]

On 3/30/2020 at 3:58 AM, Sacrifice said:

Approved.

It is an excellent piece of writing. I really like the fact how you have stood up to shed light on two major drawbacks of society today; Not taking the pandemic seriously and lack of creativity. It is true that where some people are scared to their deaths, there are people who still live by the motto "What is written will happen so why worry about anything". What we need to understand is how our actions at present will shape not just our own future but also affect many other people. 

Additionally, we as a human race complain a lot when we could be taking steps to prevent something or to make something happen. In this case, we can practice new skills and put our mind to thorough thought and ourselves become creative. I personally like how you have managed to combine the two concepts together. It is true, that the way education system works today, if the students don't try to find a way to polish their own skills, we as a race would soon bend to our knees.

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• Minor grammatical fixes.
• Removed certain adjectives that caused weird emphasis.

You never fail to amaze us with your amazing work. Keep it up! Eager to see more work from you. 

Thank you for publishing this and for the feedback! I hope to start writing more frequently in the near future.