It's 2025, people exchange concerned looks with each other when they pass in the streets. Speeding up to avoid any confrontation or conversation. Towns and villages are filled with strange people who follow their own culture, instead of engaging with the society around them.

The library is empty, besides a few older women, delicately reading their news paper. Not a youth in sight except myself. No one wants knowledge, they don't want this world.

They opt to live in the binary, blue light shatters their strained and sunken eyes. Socialising goes as far as "how was your weekend?" Lonely. I sat alone by a river, shovelling drugs up my nose to feel something other than absence, only reinforcing toxic ideals.

In a world where we cannot trust ourselves, cannot make real connection with others, our lives run by ads, consumerism, and conformity, what do we have? How do we move forward?

The soul of humanity is dead and I fear it will never return