ALWAYS THE BLUE PILL
This is an article written for the #augustinleo writing prompt series and Day21 prompt ....
My experience of this prompt could be described as being a bit Unrealistic
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Day 26 Let's play a little game with the #hivenaija community...
Blue pill: bring someone back to life
Red pill: have an everlasting life
What would you choose?
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Blue of course
Why Blue and not Red?
I am that Narcissistic that everything has to be about me?
Fluff no, nor should we be able to have both options, that is the same thing...
Life is about us and looking after yourself as rule number one, but nah this takes the piss if you answer red pill..
True colours shine through, the odds are that we don't read each others post or engage lol!
So yeah it has to be blue...
Why not a family member?
You know if I had a deceased child then for sure I would choose to have that child brought back to life.
But I don't so that is ruled out. Both my parents have passed away, but how can you bring back one without the other?
So they are no, likewise with grandparents.
I thought about having my paternal grandfather as I have never met him. Then I thought about the great man himself ... Sir Edward Blount my ancestor with the aristocratic nose hehe
Hehe but that is too simplistic and I am sure I have written about him before.
Then I toyed with the father of Mrs T or her stepdad whom I knew really well.
Then perhaps her brother who passed away far too young.
So no, that is not happening for this prompt. No family members...
Someone from sport or history?
My favourite football player was Davie Cooper and indeed I have named my dogs Cooper.
He had the most mercurial left foot, and the great Ruud Gullit said he was the only Scot who could ever get into the Brazil team, and you know how they play with so much style!
Some of the other greats, Jock Wallace, Sandy Jardine, Walter Smith are all Rangers legends but no.
So I was thinking more sports and then up popped Jocky Wilson the rolypoly darts player from Kirkcaldy where I live.
So no, no sports players.
Then I thought about bringing back Hitler and making him pay for his crimes.
Quickly put paid to that idea as I am sure there will be people wanting him to be freed etc.
This world really has become a shambles.
Then I quickly dismissed history and settled back on Kirkcaldy and knew exactly who it would be.
When we moved to Kirkcaldy three years ago I was walking along a road which is beside Beveridge Park where we feed the ducks and the swans...
It seemed uncannily familiar.
Then it dawned on me that I had been to one of the houses before many years ago.
When I was at university in Edinburgh I shared a house with a computer science student and we were best friends.
We went drinking and pulling together. Cover for each all the time when needed and did as best friends do.
I remember going back to his parents house one year for Christmas, and yes that was why the road is so familiar.
In fact I will walk past there tonight and take a picture of the house. They are long gone.
He was a cracking guy and joined the navy and became a helicopter pilot.
When I was in Africa we had arranged to go to a football tourney that Scotland had qualified for. He had now left the navy and worked as a helicopter pilot flying out to the oil platforms in the North Sea.
I had time off and he was looking forward to it.
In the end his leave was cancelled and he could not come with us.
He never made it
I came back and found messages, and heard about an oilrig disaster , a helicopter had crashed on landing and everyone died as it hit a crane and dropped into the ocean many feet below.
Not only did he die and I lost my best friend but the papers and media blamed him as he was the copilot, but the crane boom was where it should not have been.
RIP Chris
It's always the good ones that taken so young!
Now I shall read the other answers and see who displays Narcissistic personality disorder 🤣
Are you a blue pill or red pill person...
What would you choose ?
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my response to the prompt.
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This article is an entry for this month's Inleo writing initiative #augustinleo
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Today's prompt is Day 26 | Blue Pill or Red Pill?
All ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated, note lead image is generated with AI on freepix.com from a prompt by me.The other photographs are all orginal and taken by me the author.