Semi-Enlightened

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I am Thomas Smith or was Thomas Smith, I suppose that name doesn't quite matter now. I was once a worker at a factory that made peanut butter (Something which I miss dearly). When one day in a moment of pure clarity I began to realize the true nature of the universe and everything within it. I immediately left work and went home to meditate, after what seemed like hours but was apparantly several months my mother finally came to see where I've been and if I was even alive. I then realized that I would need to find somewhere more quiet to ponder these thoughts, and thusly spent my life savings as well as a generous bank loan (that mid-town sports bar will never be opened now) to purchase an underground bunker to be alone. I brought some rations with me (though I seemed to not need to eat as much as I had) and sealed myself in after writing letters to my mother and loved ones briefly stating my situation. I began to meditate on these truths once more, but after spending several years I finally hit some sort of point where I had more and more trouble understanding things until the point I couldn't understand these profound truths laid out before me anymore. I knew I was close though, I was perhaps in some sort of semi-enlightened state much like The Buddha prior to his ascension or the ancient Daoist masters and gurus I've heard about before. The only thing I could think to do was to go outside and hope I could find that spark once again.

I stood up and shook the dust that had accumulated on my body and thought about what my next action should be..

>look around your bunker

>Leave the bunker and look at your surroundings

>Continue to meditate

>Write in