“March to the beat of a different
drum.”
Pete Best* #quote
Today I joined a Smash Brothers
website that matched people together to fight. (For the uninformed it
is a Nintendo game with many of their characters as ones you can pick
to play to battle your friends). The normal online play in Smash
Brothers by Nintendo is fairly random but this website has better
people on it where you specifically pick people to play in a ranking
ladder. I played against one person after signing up who was “playing
a new character that they were unfamiliar with and hoped they
wouldn't be a boring match” I actually lost so it seems I have much
to learn to compete with people better at the game than people on the
random match ups who wouldn't go on a site with rankings in the first
place. Failure does not discourage me though. Try, try, try again. As
you do something you get better. Like writing flash fictions!
Echoes Of Souls
Now known as Jerry he once walked the
Earth as Harold then Jennifer before and even before that as Akira,
then before that as Fernanda. Jerry reincarnations were many and
unlike others who did the souls of his past lives echoed within his
current mind. He didn't quite understand it. Or even know that it
happened. Knowing something that you shouldn't know merely means you
forgot where you heard it right?
Through his many lives he simply
became a person of great wisdom. Understand many perspectives and
knowing much. But still ordinary. Jerry never could fly or do any
inhuman with the power of recollecting old lives as strange foggy
information in the back of his mind.
One day Jerry bumped into an old woman
in the mall. He felt extremely embarrassed at the whole thing and
said to her, “Sorry Elizabeth, I guess I just bumbled and
stumbled.” The old woman couldn't believe her ears. The man knew
her name somehow and used the silly phrase 'bumbled and stumbled', a
silly phrase her grandmother said to her and her brother when they
were young. Her brother died twenty five years ago. About the age of
this man. His death was one of the saddest moments in her life. The
strange circumstance made her feel joyful inside though she assumed
she misheard the man he bumped into. Her hearing was going.
Jerry walked along, he hoped the woman
didn't notice he blurted out a name. That tended to happen around
elderly people. He wondered if he had some kind of verbal shouting
condition. But they always seemed so happy when he did. And they
always told him they reminded him of an old friend.
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