Walk of Life

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<<audio "bird" volume 0.05 loop play>>Where am I? @@.delayed;I can hear birds chirping.@@ @@.delayed;I can feel this warm breeze that is making me feel comfortable.@@ @@.delayed;It feels like I'm in heaven.@@ @@.delayed;[[Open my eyes.]]@@

<<if $walkaway is false>>Oh. She's sleeping.<<else>>She's still sleeping.<</if>> @@.delayed;She's sleeping so peacefully.@@ @@.delayed;What should I do?@@ @@.delayed;[[Wake her up.]]@@ <<if $walkaway is false>>@@.delayed;[[Walk away.]]@@<</if>>

"Okay..but where are we?" @@.delayed;<<if $remember is false>>"I don't know. I don't [[remember]] anything about getting here."<<else>>[[''I think...I got here because I died.''|reality]]<</if>>@@ @@.delayed;<<if $remember is false>>"I don't either."<</if>>@@ @@.delayed;<<if $remember is false>>"..."<</if>>@@ <<audio "rain" stop>> <<audio "car" stop>> <<audio "crowd" stop>> <<audio "bird" volume 0.05 loop play>>

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<<set $remember to true>>Wait..I think I remember how I got here. @@.delayed;I can [[feel]] it.@@ <<audio "bird" stop>>

"Does that mean I'm dead too?" @@.delayed;She seems very scared and worried.@@ @@.delayed;It looks like she's going to burst out tears at any moment.@@ @@.delayed;[[Oh..crap|mistake]]@@

It was a rainy day. @@.delayed;I think my clothes were all wet.@@ @@.delayed;<<if $someone is false>>Wait.. What happened to my [[umbrella]]?<<else>>I dropped my umbrella..<</if>>@@ @@.delayed;I think I was lying in the middle of the street because I can still feel the cold and hard concrete floor.@@ @@.delayed;Wait.. Why was I [[lying]] in the middle of the street.?@@ <<audio "rain" volume 0.05 loop play>> <<audio "car" volume 0.05 loop play>>

I think there were people surrouding me. @@.delayed;They all seemed very shocked.@@ @@.delayed;They were all looking at me.@@ @@.delayed;Why? What happened to me?@@ @@.delayed;I think I remember that there was a car that was heavily damaged.@@ @@.delayed;It probably crashed into something.@@ @@.delayed;Wait..Is this blood next to me? My BLOOD?@@ @@.delayed;No way...@@ @@.delayed;[[I died by a car accident..|Greeting]]@@ <<audio "car" stop>> <<audio "crowd" volume 0.2 loop play>>

Right..I dropped my umbrella. @@.delayed;I think it was very a special umbrella.@@ @@.delayed;It was a gift.@@ @@.delayed;Someone gave it to me, but who?@@ @@.delayed;[[''What was I doing?''|feel]]@@ <<set $someone to true>>

"Who is 'he'?" @@.delayed;"I don't remember too much about him but I remember that he always came to [[visit]] me."@@

"Visit..where?" @@.delayed;"Umm..I actually spent most of my life in hospital."@@ @@.delayed;"I remember I always got sick of waking up in the same room, with all the machines connected to my body."@@ @@.delayed;"My [[parents]] were busy working to pay for my medical service."@@ @@.delayed;"I spent most of my time by myself."@@ @@.delayed;"He was the only visitor that came to interact with me."@@ @@.delayed;[[''How bad was your condition?''|illness]]@@

"How were your parents?" @@.delayed;[[''...''|Not close yet]]@@ <<audio "middle" fadeout>>

"Did you have any health problem?" @@.delayed;[[''...''|Not close yet]]@@ <<audio "middle" fadeout>>

Oh.. She doesn't seem comfortable talking about it. @@.delayed;I shouldn't ask anything too personal. @@ @@.delayed;[[Let's ask her to walk around first. It's getting awkward between us.|Getting close]]@@ <<audio "middle" stop>>

I gently reach out for her hand. @@.delayed;"I apologize for asking too much. Would you mind walking around?"@@ @@.delayed;<<if $world is true>>"The weather is really nice [[here]]"<<else>>"The weather is really nice here"<</if>>@@ @@.delayed;<<if $someone is true>>Even though she still seems worried, she decides to stand up and gives me a warm [[smile]].<<else>>Even though she still seems worried, she decides to stand up and gives me a warm smile.<</if>>@@ @@.delayed;She replies, [[''Yes, let's go''|walk]]@@ <<audio "wind" volume 0.1 loop play>>

"Do you remember anything before you got here?" @@.delayed;She seems like she is trying to hold back her tears.@@ @@.delayed;She seems like she is trying to concentrate to remember anything about getting here.@@ @@.delayed;"I think I was trying to meet with someone, but [[he]] never showed up"@@ <<audio "middle" volume 0.1 loop play>>

I shouldn't have said that. @@.delayed;I don't know..maybe she isn't acutally dead?@@ @@.delayed;If she did, she doesn't seem like she can handle the fact that she have died.@@ @@.delayed;I should [[change]] the topic.@@ <<audio "bird" stop>>

Earlier, I couldn't find anything except for this endless grass field. @@.delayed;Is this a world where people come in their after-life?@@ @@.delayed;It feels so peaceful here.@@ @@.delayed;[[Where are we?|Getting close]]@@ <<audio "wind" stop>>

That smile. @@.delayed;That reminds me of someone.@@ @@.delayed;[[Do I know her?|Getting close]]@@ <<audio "wind" stop>>

I don't know how much time has passed since we started walking. @@.delayed;Even though it was awkward at first, she seems really nice and friendly.@@ @@.delayed;It also seems like we have simliar interests.@@ @@.delayed;She says that she really enjoys watching movies.@@ @@.delayed;She hesitates at first, but then she says "Since I couldn't go outside, I spent most of my time watching movies"@@ @@.delayed;I asked, "What genres do you like the most?"@@ @@.delayed;"Honestly, I'm fine with anything except horror movies. Oh, I love romance!"@@ @@.delayed;"I've always wished that I could be like one of the characters in romantic movies, but..."@@ @@.delayed;She hesitates [[again|Story]].@@ <<audio "wind" fadeout>> <<audio "climax" volume 0.05 loop play>>

"Since I had no social life, I had no friends...well except him" @@.delayed;"And who would like a girl like me who's sick all the time and not even pretty?"@@ @@.delayed;"Hey, Don't say-"@@ @@.delayed;"It's okay. I'm used to it!"@@ @@.delayed;She tries to give me a smile to tell me that she doesn't care about it, but I can tell that she really does.@@ @@.delayed;Now I'm curious about the 'boy' that she's been mentioning about.@@ @@.delayed;"Oh, yeah who is the [['boy']] that you've been mentioning about?"@@

"I guess he was the only friend I had.." @@.delayed;"How did you meet him at first?"@@ @@.delayed;"Well, I met him in my hospital's hallway when I was very little."@@ @@.delayed;"He told me that he came to visit his mom."@@ @@.delayed;"He told me that his mom was very sick."@@ @@.delayed;"Since he had nothing to do in the hospital, we spent time together playing games and watching movies."@@ @@.delayed;"Also, when I found out that we were actually the same age, I was so happy to make a friend who is the same [[age|boy2]]."@@

"I hoped everything would go well with his mother's condition." @@.delayed;"...."@@ @@.delayed;"One day, I saw him crying by himself in the hallway."@@ @@.delayed;"..."@@ @@.delayed;"He told me that his mother had passed away."@@ @@.delayed;"He said that he will make sure he will keep the promise that he made with his mother."@@ @@.delayed;"Even though he lost his mother at a very young age, he tried to leave all of his depressed and hopeless minds behind. He worked really hard for his [[future|boy3]]."@@

"Whenever I got depressed, I always looked at him as an example to help me get rid of all of my negative thoughts." @@.delayed;"As we grew up, he got busier with his school and work. Even though I was sad that I couldn't see him that often, I supported him for working hard to reach for his dream."@@ @@.delayed;"Did you have anyone else visiting you?"@@ @@.delayed;"Well...sometimes my [[parents|parents2]] I guess."@@

"I guess I didn't realize when I was very little, but as the time passed, I felt like a burden to them." @@.delayed;"I was getting worse, and my parents seemed like they were getting very tired of paying for my medical services."@@ @@.delayed;"He told me not to blame myself. He said that it's not my fault that I ended up like this.@@ @@.delayed;She finally burst out the tears that she has been holding back.@@ @@.delayed;Her tears are slowly falling down from her eyes.@@ @@.delayed;I should do something to console her.@@ @@.delayed;[[Reach to my pocket|pocket]]@@ @@.delayed;[[Change the topic]]@@

Wait..What is this? Oh.. it's a handkerchief. I should [[give]] it to her. <<set $handkerchief to true>> <<audio "climax" stop>>

"Are you okay?" @@.delayed;"..."@@ @@.delayed;"When was the last time you saw him?"@@ @@.delayed;"Probably a few months ago. He promised me to come to visit me on Christmas Eve."@@ @@.delayed;"The date for me surgery was on Christmas. I really wanted to see him before my surgery, but he did not show for some reason."@@ @@.delayed;"Do you know what happened to [[him|What Happened]]?"@@ <<audio "climax" stop>> <<audio "sad" volume 0.1 loop play>>

"Thank you." @@.delayed;She seems like she's very embarrassed for crying in front of me.@@ @@.delayed;Let's give her some [[time|Change the topic]].@@ <<audio "sad" volume 0.1 loop play>>

"No..." @@.delayed;"I really wanted tell him that I always liked him."@@ @@.delayed;"I guess I will never be able to tell him about my feelings."@@ @@.delayed;"I guess that's all I remember now. I couldn't remember them at first but talking to you helped me recall all these moments."@@ @@.delayed;It looks like her surgery did not go well.@@ @@.delayed;I guess that's why she is here.@@ @@.delayed;<<if $someone is true and $handkerchief is true>>I should tell her my [[story]].<<else>>I don't remember how long we have been walking, but we have reached to this [[door]] that seems like an end of this world.<</if>>@@

"What about you? Do you have anything to tell me?" @@.delayed;"Well...I was in love with this girl for most of my entire life"@@ @@.delayed;"Aww..what kind of person was she?"@@ @@.delayed;"She was very nice and friendly. She helped me a lot when I lost my mother. She was always there for me when I was concerned about anything."@@ @@.delayed;"She was also very sick like my mother. I did not want to lose another person who was very speical to me."@@ @@.delayed;"She was also the first girl that approached me. I fell in love at first [[sight|story2]]."@@ <<audio "sad" stop>> <<audio "truth" volume 0.3 loop play>>

We open the door together. Rebirth? Heaven? or Hell? No one knows what's beyond this door. I give a farewell hug to the girl. Even though something didn't feel right, we have decided to walk forward. END (NOT TRUE ENDING) <<audio "sad" stop>> <<audio "door" volume 0.05 loop play>>

"But as I got older, it became difficult to see her" @@.delayed;"I got very busy with school and work. I wanted to become successful so I could be able to take care of her for the rest of my life."@@ @@.delayed;"I still remember when she gave me an umbrella as Christmas gift. It was my first time receiving a gift from someone."@@ @@.delayed;"As a return, I gave her a handkerchief as Christmas gift."@@ @@.delayed;"Last time I saw her, I promised her to visit her on Christmas Eve. That day, I have decided to confess my feelings towards her."@@ @@.delayed;"I was very nervous when that day came."@@ @@.delayed;"I remember that it was [[raining]] that day."@@

"I was very happy to see her because it had been so long since the last time I saw her. I missed her so much." @@.delayed;"However, everything went downhill when I was crossing the road."@@ @@.delayed;"Because it was raining and dark, this driver did not see me crossing the road."@@ @@.delayed;"That was the last moment that I can think of"@@ @@.delayed;"I really wished that I could tell her about my feelings."@@ @@.delayed;I think my memory is coming back slowly.@@ @@.delayed;I turn my face towards the girl.@@ @@.delayed;She is [[crying]].@@

She is trying to reach through her bag. @@.delayed;She takes out the umbrella.@@ @@.delayed;"Is this the umbrella that you received from her?"@@ @@.delayed;"Yes.."@@ @@.delayed;"Even though we never confessed our feelings, it looks like our feelings eventually ended up reaching to each other."@@ @@.delayed;She is right.@@ @@.delayed;The handkerchief that I gave to her ended up in my pocket.@@ @@.delayed;The umbrella that I received ended up in her bag.@@ @@.delayed;I can't believe she is [[here|crying2]].@@

We are both crying. @@.delayed;We hugged.@@ @@.delayed;I'm so happy to see her again.@@ @@.delayed;"You know what? It feels like I'm in one of those romantic movies right now."@@ @@.delayed;She smiles. She has the most beautiful smile I've ever seen.@@ @@.delayed;I don't know how long the time has passed since that moment, but we've reached to this [[door|door2]] that seems like an end of everything.@@

I give her a farewell kiss. @@.delayed;We both promise that we will meet again.@@ @@.delayed;We open the door together.@@ @@.delayed;No one knows what's beyond this door.@@ @@.delayed;We have decided to leave everything behind, then walk forward.@@ @@.delayed;END (TRUE ENDING)@@

I gently shake her shoulder. @@.delayed;"Huh?"@@ @@.delayed;She's awake, but she seems very confused.@@ @@.delayed;"Who are you? Where am I?" @@ @@.delayed;I should make her calm down first.@@ @@.delayed;[[''Hey, Everything's fine. I just saw you sleeping here''|Greeting]]@@

<<set $walkaway to true>><<set $world to true>>I've been walking around for about 10 minutes now. @@.delayed;I don't see anything else except this endless grass field.@@ @@.delayed;It feels like I'm walking in a desert, except there's only grass instead of sand.@@ @@.delayed;Strangely, I don't feel tired at all.@@ @@.delayed;Now I'm really curious about that girl.@@ @@.delayed;She might know how we ended up here.@@ @@.delayed;[[Return to the girl.|girl]]@@

I see an endless grass field. @@.delayed;The sunlight is really bright and strong.@@ @@.delayed;I can barely open my eyes.@@ @@.delayed;The sky is so clear and beautiful, like a part of an art piece.@@ @@.delayed;The temperature is perfect, right in between of cold and hot.@@ @@.delayed;I think I see a [[girl]] in the distance.@@

Walk of Life - Mingun Cho CMPM 80K, Winter 2020 -Please play on fullscreen. -Please make sure sound is on. [[Play.|Beginning]]