"They don't know who I really am, and they don't know what I've been through Like You do!!" - BRANDI CARLILE

STORY TIME!!!!

I have currently been in a state of writers block so i figure its time for a random story moment.  This story is coming to me as I type. None of it will have been planned out its coming straight from my head starting...................NOW!!!!


What would you do if no one could hear you?  What would you do if you were just a body walking through the town with no purpose what-so-ever?  Well...Welcome to my world. 
            My name is Tina and I'm literally nobody.  You here all the time people talking about how they are invisible to the world and how they feel that no one cares, but they have no idea.  I could scream and at the top of my lungs in the middle of Time Square, and not a single person would notice.  Why? because nobody can hear me.  I have no family, no friends, and not even an acquaintance.  I live my life day to day knowing that I will never be able to do the things that I would like to do.  I would love more than to anything to just be a dancer.  Is that really so much to ask?  I mean, come on, its not like you need a voice to dance.  All you need is to be able to feel the music.
          Oh and how I do love music.  The feel, the rhythm, and the way a simple note can bring you to tears.  I love to just sit in Central Park listening to the local musicians playing the first notes that come into their head while passer byes drop quarters into an old hat.  It gives you a sense of calmness and an appreciation for people doing what they love. 
          Its a day just like any other day.  I'm walking a long and all of a sudden I hear someone yell.
             "TINA!!"
          My heart stops.
             "TINA!!"
          There it is again! This time knowing that I'm not just hearing things.
            "Um, yes?" I respond very timidly.
            " Where have you been? We have been searching everywhere for you!"
          Still not knowing who I'm talking to I start talking in a circle hoping for some face to catch my eye.
            "Searching for me? What are you talking about?"
            " What do you mean, what am I talking about? We've been searching for you it has been 10 years."
           I'm so confused at this point. Now I'm really beginning to think that I have lost my mind.  Here is this random person talking to me and there is no one but the people walking by me like they have for as long as I can remember.  So, I quit responding in hopes that it will just disappear.  I start heading to the subway.  The voice stops.  As soon as I sit down this gentleman, I'm sure I've never met before, comes and gives me a huge hug.  I can't tell you the last time I ever made contact with someone. 
            "Tina you have to come with me."
            " I'm sorry sir but I'm not going anywhere with you.  I don't know you.  You are mistaking me for someone else."
            "Wow you really don't remember me? I guess I shouldn't be to surprised it has been 10 years after all."
            " Ten years?  Ten years since when? What is going on?" I'm getting really irritated at this point.
            " Ten years since the car wreck.  I don't know how to break this to you, Tina, but you're dead."
 


*******This story is not over, but we have ran out of time for the day.  Please stay tuned for the second half of the story to find out more about Tina's life changing discovery and the man who is helping her cope.