Vigilance (Vigilance, Pt. 1)

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10/24/22 • 25 min

The Pantheon

The job exist.
The job has reasons to exist.
What are those reasons?
Do you understand them?
No?
I thought so.

The job exist.
The job has reasons to exist.
What are those reasons?
Do you understand them?
No?
I thought so.

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Some lighthearted stuff for a not so lighthearted time.
And yes, I came up with this whole thing in the shower. So sue me.

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Door

Oooh, it's an episode about a door? Isn't that a bit boring?
Well, it's not really about the door, duh. Or is it?
I cannot tell you how many times I had to rerecord this because the audio file got corrupted. Okay, three times. Which seems not that much, but it's basically the only story I've had that problem with. Okay, that and one other. But it's just weird. Three times. Over a long period of lackadaisically revisiting this, saying to myself that I'm finally going to release it. Almost like this story is cursed!
It's not. Literally just annoying coincidence. That's what most bad things in life are. There's a lot of bad, irrational things out there, but we should never discard our own capacity for logic in our attempts to understand them. That's not the message of this story, but it is the moral of the story of me having to rerecord this so many times :P

The Pantheon - Vigilance (Vigilance, Pt. 1)

Transcript

The sky was particularly gray that morning. It wasn’t even the clouds. There were clouds, yes, but not so many that the color could be blamed on them. It was something different. Something...
Who was I kidding? The sky was gray because I was projecting my thoughts onto it. Of course. I wasn’t feeling all that great. Who was?
It took me a full hour to even leave my apartment. I was a different person, now. I didn’t like who I was. I didn’t... but that didn’t matter. It really di