For @mariannewest/day-169-5-minute-freewrite-friday-prompt-atlas

Oh my. I am reminded of ... was it @doctorcrypto? ( edit: It was @miniature-tiger ) If it wasn't, I'm sorry for miscrediting you, whomever... Go to my punday blog from around MLK Jr. day. I think... Anyways, they made the pun, "Atlas! Free Atlas!" (You know, instead of "At Last, Free At Last!")

Ha.

The world.. I wish I could live forever. I kind of plan to? There's a lot of world that I want to visit. And I want to continue visiting the world.

I keep going back to the short story called The Egg that my buddy Ben showed me. It posits...
Spoilers ahead. Go find and read the story now if you don't want spoilers.

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It posits that everybody is just you. That when you die, you are reborn, not necessarily as a person in the future, but as another person, maybe in the past! There is only you. This would make me happy. I hope I never die, but if I must, I'd like to live each lifetime. I want to know what it is to live in the future on another planet, and to live as a ... druggie... and to live as a swimming champion and to live as one of the first human being. To live as both someone who is sick and the doctor who heals them. I want to experience it all.

My only fear is that this isn't true. That I can't live more than this one life.

Ugh.

From @improv/atlas-5minutefreewrite
This is my aloud-reading of the freewrite I wrote above, and offer to the aether due to @freewritehouse's call for read-alouds!