What’s going on? I don’t know. Why do I feel like I don’t know anyone? I don’t know. What do I know? I don’t know.
All I know is that yesterday everything was normal, but today I woke up feeling numb inside. It was as if all my emotions had travelled to an unreachable land far away from here. I saw the person calling me, I don’t know why, but her name says “Mom”. Is it just a rare name that I haven’t heard of before or is it some kind of nickname, because I have no idea what it means. I answered the phone and I saw that she was just as confused as I was. She told me that we were related and that she gave birth to me, but neither of us have any feelings for each other. The whole situation makes us feel unusual but we can’t understand why.
I decided to say never mind and I went on with my day. I went to the bakery at the end of the street and the baker looked quite familiar to me, but I was incapable of feeling anything for him. There was just this strange voice inside me which kept saying that we used to be close. The voice began to drown inside of the void in my heart and it eventually disappeared.
The voice kept coming back and it left again and again. It survived and died every time I saw someone at work, at the grocery store, in my own apartment. If no one explains what’s going on, I’ll go crazy, I said to myself and then I turned on the news, expecting to learn something about the sense of familiarity that came and went. And yes, the scientists really knew something about it.
What’s going on? Humanity once had this thing called “emotional bond” and they used to be very close. They had their families, friends, colleagues… Now, they simply don’t have that kind of connection and they just care for themselves. Why do I feel like I don’t know anyone? Because people remember people by the thoughts that they’ve thought about them, and only emotions can create thoughts. What do I know? All I know is that nothing’s ever going to be the same and that everything has changed.