Fate's Cruel Joke

I was having a fairly normal conversation with a friend, when suddenly, she got a very ambitious idea. After seeing a convention the other day, and how wonderful the experience was, she got the idea to do one of her own. She was really passionate and believed that she could do it. I tried asking why, but I was mostly ignored, her mind was looking to the future, and how she would achieve her newly set goal after all.

Some time passed and while I was walking on the streets by myself, I noticed a building with a very big panel on the front displaying an image I couldn't really recognize. It was very wobbly and distorted, but somehow I knew it was about my friend's ambitious idea. They went and did it, she funded and made a full convention from the ground up and it was all in this big two storey building. Since the doors were open and there were no guards on the entrance, I assumed the entrance was free and for the public, so I went in to check it out. It was very surprising, there were many things to see and do, there were a lot of people too. Quite the success she got on her hand, doing all of it by herself. But this happy success story was not meant to last…

Suddenly, the sky turned completely pitch black… it was all rain clouds, ready to unleash the most terrifying storm this building would ever see! There was very little time to react, the clouds began the downpour in very little time after appearing. Many guests left in a hurry and some even went through the storm to get out, because… the building itself was not sustaining the attack. Many holes were being opened on the roof and water invaded all the sections of the convention, damaging a lot of the things that were carefully prepared by my friend. The hard work she did to get it, went to waste as the water dragged all away…

In this chaos, I managed to spot her in the building, looking up as the rain poured down on her face. I asked if she was okay and if she was hurt, with very brief words she said was not hurt, but very upset because of this unfair choice fate made. She was still strong however, she stood her ground and said that she was going to try again. “This one might have ended in disaster, but I'll do it again, and better next time”. She might have lost today, but her spirit was still strong.

More time passed after that event, and once again, almost as if it was determined to happen, I found her new and revamped second convention while walking on the streets. It was bigger and better than ever before as she said, this time there were two very big panels at the entrance! I still couldn't understand what they were showing, just like last time. Again, no guards at the entrance, so I just excused myself into the convention. As she said, this was really bigger and better than last time, even more things to do and see, with very bright lights too! Unfortunately, fate had a cruel joke yet to take place…

Like last time, the sky turned black instantly and a storm began. But this was not like last time, this one was twice as strong as the one from last time. Tearing through the roof of the top floor and even making an opening on the roof of the ground floor. I tried to search for my friend while many ran to the exit to seek shelter, and after some time searching, I saw her. She was below the stairs for the floor above, all alone, sitting in the hook position. Water was dripping in her head and the floor was pretty much a small lake, but she made no movement or even reacted to anything. Her face was sad and her eyes were void of any emotion…

When I tried to approach her, in the blink of an eye, I suddenly found myself back to where it all began, back to the conversation where she was telling me about her ambitious idea. I didn't know why I was back here or how I did it, but I took this opportunity and told her what was going to happen. Thinking, if I tell what's going to happen, maybe I could stop the ending. She thought to herself for a bit after telling her what would happen, and then told me: “If that's how it will end, I'll just get up and try again. I won't stop until I achieve my goal successfully!”


POST DREAM COMMENTARY

I woke up after that.

What a dream to have on April fools! I don't have anything to add as commentary since nothing relevant to this dream really happened after I woke up.

Just a strange dream out of nowhere…