It's a bright day.
The sun is shining with great power, scorching lightly its surroundings.
Nothing is too different from the normal, this is an action understood and perceived by the vast majority of humanity, yes nothing new and nothing strange.
A vast majority of normal occurrences glow up the flow of fate perceived as human society, an amalgamation of normal, possible, and determined, perhaps inevitable events chained up together, forming our knowledge of our limited world.
Living alone, and away from the stress of the world, was a young boy barely in his primary school, dreaming of big things happening, he hoped the hope of life that he wanted to obtain, the skills he desired to devour and encompass, they were like shining small strings of light, imagined and envisioned right across his open palm of the right hand.
'I want to make it big, to observe and learn the mysteries of life, the beauty it possesses, I want to know it all, to absorb it all, but alas I am too little, too underwhelming, in front of such vastness what can I do' though the child with both excitement and incertitude.
He was still a small child of 10 years old, right now he didn't know how to operate the game of life, just aware of the fact that there are rules, constraints, and advantages, so his concern right now was to seize all of the advantages he could get like the chance to do well in school and earn a scholarship, but it was fine, because even with all of the hardship he could handle it, after all he was a smart boy, yes that was what his parents always told him.
'We'll it's pointless to think too much in advance, after all, life is full of uncertainty.'
"Nicolae, did you finish dressing up, come down to eat, breakfast is ready" a feminine voice reached his ears.
"Coming now, Mom," replied the young boy.
As he abandoned his thoughts the boy went went downstairs to the kitchen.
"What is there to eat today Mom," asked the boy to his Mother.
"A plate of pasta, already prepared, don't forget that today is a big day for your future career in school, it is the day of the math exam, I hope you learned well"
"Don't worry Mom, you know I always ace those," replied Nicolae without any concern.
"Well, a Mother can always be worried, after all, it's too essential for you."
"I know Mom, I know, I'll make you proud, I promise."
The Mother and son duo continued the conversation until the plate was left clean.
"Well, It's time for you to leave. You don't want to be late, bye son, I love you."
"Bye Mom, I love you too."
That was the string of fate chosen by this family, the Bursuc family, and the young boy was called Bursuc Nicolae, a Romanian boy living in the city of Timisoara.
He went to school, did his activities, always got the best marks, and repeated his actions, for him, there was not a lot of room for development.
This is not because he wasn't aware of any different method, but because he wasn't in position, nor he did consider it worth changing his already stable life, employing risk for small benefits wasn't his style.
And he continued to do so, nothing changed, always betting on stability, on his fortune available in the future, of this possibility.
He was a smart child, after all, he knew what to expect.
"Life is so long and full of potential, I would love to explore it all," he always told himself, motivated to uncover the wonders of life.
He had a big dream of discovering all of the wonders, the endless possibilities left behind by the unknown, he wanted to be an archeologist, to explore the world, to dress himself up with the vastness of the unknown.
But it was a hard dream that required much, and not everyone was fit for it. Was he even that special, that different, enough for the world to give him such a chance.
He always told himself, immersed in these doubts he always has, like a sphere of darkness clouding the reason and ambition, like a fog that eats the dreams away, like gravity, eternal, infinite, and feasting on the hope of humanity in an endless buffet, such was the power of his doubts, the heaviness of the world, the world inspiring and destroying glowing and enshrouding was its origin. One human could simply not fight it but adapt to it.
And the cycle continued, nothing too different or extraordinary.
The boy tried hard, he did, achieved much, he earned.
Spiraling slowly, step by step to his envisioned goals.
Basic school stuff, basic knowledge, basic information, its usage he mastered, and he always got the first place, yes small things and mundane were his world, something he put up with for the sake of his goals.
He was a social boy, a smart boy, a hardworking boy, climbing up, step by step, and especially very slowly.
Mundame things conjured his string of fate, and time passed by, forming and knitting up a teen in his advanced years, finally at 18.
"Nicolae, are you ready to receive the result of your exams," said the Mother with great excitement.
"Yes, Mom," replied the boy, now an adult.
The boy opened his Computer and looked for the results of his exam.
"Excellent job my boy, you are truly outstanding"
Naturally the results of his exam were full marks of 10, and his parents already expected such results, they were proud of him and he was happy. The result of his patience and hard work was apparent. Now, with this, he could get to the university he desired and study geography, he could use his social skills and smooth talking to get ahead in his career, getting the door of archeology opened and absorbing all kinds of knowledge left in use by the world.
This was his greatest desire, his dream.
The biggest symbol of humanity, one with him.
The desire and greed can be called everpresent with his spirit, burning in him like a candle with the same magnitude it burns for the essence of his life, a burning sphere of candles representing human ambitions, pathways, and fate covering a human being.
Perhaps it can be said that humans are like a painting. Splashing, twisting, contorsionated bubbles of painting, formatting lines, dots, circles. An ever-existing concert of color aligned to form the crux of a human being.
It represents the liberty of choices, the fate ever present, the change of an existing point, the flexibility of life and the different doors it opens, the consequences and rewards, the united sphere of possibilities, combining themself with a human being, a human may become a main character, no, in a way a human is always a main character of his story, perhaps a blind one but still a main character.
That is the essence of a human being, and it would be such a foolish thing to remain blind to it.
And fought hard he did, the young human boy. Fought hard to avoid his blindness, with a scholarship and great success, he got his bachelor's degree and obtained a job as a geography teacher at a prestigious private school.
Viewed as a part-time thing, a stepping stone for his inevitable goal.
With this, he could make connections, ask away things, obtain social standing, and progress at his own pace.
'Things are certainly right, but I still need to finish my master's and doctorate, then I can give lectures to a university I aimed, it also focuses on archeologic exploratory, ah I can barely wait to see the world, the explore its every crevice,' thought excited the young researcher, his heart already captured by his fantasies.
At 8:00 in the morning.
"Good morning class, my name is Nicolae Bursuc and I am your new geography teacher, you can call me Mister Bursuc"
"Good morning, Mr. Bursuc," saluted the teens with a minute reaction.
"Although I'm new here, I hope I can be as presentable as possible to you and join in together to learn about the wonders of the earth. If you want to join in together with me on these lessons, I hope I can change your view and open you about how great the mysteries of the earth are, not to simply learn and memorize some aspect of geography."
For Nicolae, this was fine. He always had a keen talent for attracting people, which was an easy job for him.
He avoided talking about the memorization of topics and described the lessons as a series of mysteries that were about to be opened rather than a tiresome combination of words required to be memorized.
Soon, he became the student's favorite, combining with a few jokes and some slang he found in their vocabulary, it was easy to become their favorite. Of course, he always knew to help someone who was in need, and invest his time in them.
He was a firm believer that a group should have responsibilities and success as a group, and as the head of the said group, it was his responsibility to keep it together. Naturally, he was more focused on the success of the group as a whole rather than focusing on a shining individual.
As the lesson came and passed so did the time, Nicolae ever-focusing on his tasks at hand, never slowed down for a moment.
After many years of hard work and hardships, he finally became a lecturer at a university in the United States of America, with the possibility of doing exploratory research for fossils and many more.
"So it's here," said Nicolae with a special amount of calmness. He wasn't nervous, after all these were the expected results, calculated by him.
"So you're our new teammate, Nicolae Bursuc, right?"
"Yes, I'm Nicolae Bursuc, nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too, Nicolae"
"I'm happy that all of you are gathered here together, in 2 days we'll visit The Great Basin
desert there you can look around and explore for the fossils, so I hope you are prepared and gathered all the tools you need, understood," replied the leader of the exploratory team.
"Yes, sir," were the comments of the teammates who floated the surroundings.
"Then go home and relax yourselves a little, we have big days coming to us," replied the leader with a slight smile as he left the room.
Going back home Nicolae sat on his sofa with a book in hand, it was a simple cultivation fantasy novel, he always felt there was a deep hidden potential behind their ideas.
" So much unexplored potential and so much freedom, although most focus on subpar events, it really is a shame to miss out on so much," he groaned and continued reading. He always was a sucker for those.
Well, ignoring some points and amplifying the important ones, he read up to the end of the night and went to sleep.
It was indeed a big event coming up, something he constructed for himself, something he will have to wait and see, something he will devour with his own eyes and mind. He preferred not to think too much about it, not to make hypotheses about it, and to keep conserving the mystery of the unknown.
He will enjoy every bite of it, react to every moment, and glorify himself in this movie, an event created by himself, a special door he opened.
Until then, let the wave of sleep command his next action. He will dream and relax himself, maybe entertaining the idea of living in a cultivation world, basking in its freedom and possibilities, ruling the world, exploring the dao and the arts of heaven, living like an immortal on the plane of papers called the world, painting it in his immortal image, dominating the very will of the world, The Heaven itself.