I had a dream that the apocalypse came. The cold bug that's going around turned out to be a deadly virus that would kill 99.9% of Earth's population within 6-8 months. People would get progressively sicker and sicker until their throat was so swollen they could no longer speak or breathe. I found out the news after coming out of a movie about fantasy characters and talking animals wearing 1950s pants. My friends were sending memes of it in a group chat which I found really insensitive since I was dying?? Then I told my parents I was dropping out of school because if I had 6 months to live, I was going to spend it in New Zealand and not in school. Then my dad said the government wouldn't give us food stamps if I didn't go to school. I pointed out that we don't need food stamps, and he said that we do now because his insurance company was now out of business since everyone is dead anyway. Then I started panicking and my dad was like, don't be sad, and I was like "yeah I know it's not the years of my life, but the life of my years. And that my life was only 16 years but it's the longest and fullest thing I've know and so it's enough. But I'm super pissed because that means I wasted all this time I'm high school and I'm not even graduating." Flash forward a few weeks, I'm living in a commune with a few of my friends. And I was isolated in my room for a couple of days being depressed and then I realized my sickness was decreasing. Somehow I realized that it WAS curable and the cure was deceptively simple despite everyone dying from it, like the Black Death. You just had to not interact with anyone else that was sick. Then I realized that the virus was created by the World Health Organization had created the virus to reset the population and the communes established by the government were ways to ensure it would kill us. I grabbed an air mask and took my mom's car and started to drive to CNN headquarters in Atlanta to tell them. I could drive because there was literally no one else on the roads because they were all inside for some reason. While I drove I thought about how this was the apocalypse and I was okay with that, even if I ended up dying, but resolved to try not to die because I'd be damned if I was dying before I visited New Zealand and graduated high school and certainly not because international governments wanted me to, thank you very much.
