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Fishing King
Join Date: Nov 2007
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CANOEI love the outdoors. Everyone I know thinks I’m weird, everyone I know hates the outdoors, and in fact just about anyone hates the outdoors. The year is 2102 and a nice big forest is rarer than a four leaf clover. All anyone does is sit inside and shun themselves from the great outdoors. I am different; I love everything and anything to do with the outdoors. My favorite thing is to canoe.Just about anywhere you go, you can canoe. The world has been rapidly flooding itself over the last few years for reasons generally unknown. If you were to look at a current world map, you would see just about everything in blue spare for a few small islands. These few small islands that scatter the earth are some of the once were mighty mountain ranges including the Rockies and the Himalayas. These islands densely support what is left of the world population. There are virtually no animals left as we have destroyed all of their homes. The world has become a terrible place to live for outdoorsmen like me.The only forest I have ever been to has long since been destroyed. I mistakenly wandered their as a young boy at age five. It was the most amazing place I have ever seen, wanted to live their just like the animals did in the stories I’ve heard of them, I still do not understand why man has destroyed one of the most beautiful things put on this earth. Mankind is the only species who takes more than needed, we are the only species who uses a system of currency, we are the only species with government, we are to smart for our own good. If we were just like any other animal and we didn’t desire so many things and take what was not ours, this would be a much better place to live. We do not need to destroy the homes of billions of animals; we do not need to do any of these things. I often wish that we were like the animals and we had simple homes in the forest and no desires for unnecessary objects. I wish we had a life of complete freedom without all the complication. Since the flooding of the earth their have been some major changes. The most noticeable change is the transportation. Any form of car and oddly enough any boat has become history when it comes to transportation. The only way anybody gets around anymore is by aircraft. Planes are the new car. Everyone owns at least one and every kid is getting their license for one. I think I am correct in saying I own one of the last boats on this planet with my canoe. Oil is almost completely gone from this planet. Oil makes kerosene. Planes run on kerosene. Any day now we will be out of any kind of fuel. The world will shutdown when this happens, people don’t have the common sense to go out and walk anywhere, they rely on their planes. I will not be affected by this, I do not own a plane, my feet and my canoe take me to where I want to go. The whole world depends on their planes to get food, mail, to work. Everybody is going to be stranded without their planes. The world will end without oil.Today I went out to a nice spot and paddled my canoe into the middle of calm waters. I brought my fishing pole with me; this is the one animal that has managed to thrive after the human’s reign of terror and destruction. The world is flooding after all so it’s only natural that the sea creatures would thrive. Fishing is easy and provides me with my main source of food. Nobody gets their own food, they don’t hunt or fish or anything. They all take their planes to stores and get all the fake food they want. Nobody eats food from animals anymore besides fish, there are no more animals to provide for us so all the food is fake. I caught three large bass today. I picked up my paddle and row my canoe back to shore. I return to my small home to cook my meal. I sit in my kitchen cleaning my bass with my old fashioned radio playing. My radio (which is considered a very old and outdated object to most people) is the most modern thing in my home. There are no radios shows, whatever new shows are on television are also broadcast to radios. I am not paying to much attention when I hear a loud statement; “Our oil is gone!” the speakers voice repeated it once more as he went into an in depth story. The world was at a halt, for all but me.It will take people a while to realize what had happened. They will go outside to their planes and fly somewhere until their fuel is gone. They will try to go to a refill station only to see that it is closed. Then people will realize that their fuel is actually gone. People will be deserted in their homes with no way to get anywhere. They will eventually use all their resources and then they go hungry. People will starve to death.This is how the world will end unless mankind can learn to survive.While almost every other person on this planet is in a chaotic panic, I go about my day like any other. The most amazing thing is the way that people act like everything will be fixed. I see many people eating all the food they want thinking it will be replenished, they are wrong. In just a week or two the effects of the disaster will really start to kick in. It will be interesting to see if people try to live. Will they just sit there not trying to sole the problem and slowly die? I will find out in soon enough.It has been four days since the disaster. I took my canoe out to sea to fish. As I return to land with my catch, I see a man running toward me. The man has a large club; he is wildly swinging at it as he yells slurred curses at me. He strikes me in my stomach, I fall to the ground. The man picks up my fish and begins to run. I pick up my paddle and pursue him. I meet up with the man with a sharp jab to the back of his head with my paddle. He stumbles and turns around just in time for me to send another blow to his face. This time he is out cold. I suddenly feel bad for the man, I take one of my fish I caught and lay it on his chest for him to find later. Apparently word of my actions has spread. The next day I have three people show up at my house requesting food. I gladly share with them not thinking of the consequences. The next day over twenty people came to me for food. I cannot share with all of these people. I told them that I would show them all to fish and even provide them with polls. This idea is not popular with them; the people do not want to work for their food. They want their food given to them. I can not fish for myself and an entire city, it is not possible. The next few days I try my hardest to provide people with food. It is not an easy task, when people are given what is necessary for their survival they simply complain and want more. I am getting tired; I need a way to get these people to provide for themselves. I have a plan to go into hiding simply for one day and see if people respond. I wake up early one morning and get into my canoe. I paddle for hours off into the sea. At nightfall I do not know how many miles I have gone. I lean back in my seat, and sleep.I wake at sunrise and I pick up my paddle to return home. As my home comes into view I see something odd. There are several buildings burning. Just one day of me gone and the whole town has turned crazy. I must stop this; I cannot be depended upon the whole town’s survival.
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Fishing King
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ohio
Posts: 418
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It's very interesting and I think it is a clear description of what today's world is like and what could happen in th future. Keep writing.
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