Experience - By Ellese Elliott

Experience could experience Experience. Yet, there was only Experience. There was nothing in it, outside of it, in front of it, or behind it.  Experience was very lonely, and bored, so experience created Time.

Now Time was okay, it seemed to give Experience something to look forward to, but it also gave Experience a sense of loss. Experience could only experience Time passing or in anticipation as Time seemed to always leave Experience behind, or not yet arrive. Time never stopped. So upon Experience’s reflection, Experience thought that it was because Time had nowhere to stop; literally nowhere. So Experience created Space.

Vast and always yonder, Space gave something for Experience to explore and a place for Time to stop. Yet Time still did not stop, but now Experience could experience the flux of Time and the freedom of Space. Yet when Experience reflected, on Time and Space, Experience found that it could not distinguish one place from another. All was empty. So, Experience created Energy.

More so in some parts and less so in others, objects and shapes and currents and waves Energy gave difference and variation. Now Experience was able to distinguish things and where it was in relation to Time and Space.  But Experience suddenly realized, in the face of difference, and in the flux of Time, that Experience no longer could experience everything. Experience experienced a loss, as Experience no longer had a complete picture, but loads of different pictures in a long succession which you only get to ever see one at a time. So, Experience cut itself up, into tiny pieces and scattered these pieces all about, placing some pieces in some objects and other bits into other objects. Experience did this so Experience could experience everything. Experience was no longer one, but many

But what Experience did not expect, as Experience had not yet understood how Space and Time worked, was that Experience could only be in one place and not many places at the one time. Experiences were then forever separated and seemed never again to conjoin creating different worlds each time anew. This meant that, unless Time ran out and Space collapsed, Experience would always remain incomplete.

The more Time passed by the more Experience seemed to lose but also gain. Experience tried to put itself back together, but experiences were always being swept away.  ‘Oh no experience, what have you done?’

Ellese Elliott

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