The Immortal's Wish

"You have been chosen."

Those words are what people dread but desire to hear. One, they wish to have a purpose in life. To be chosen would mean you're important in some way. Two, being chosen could mean responsibility, or leading a group of people. It could mean to sacrifice yourself for humankind.

"You, Joshua Malachi, have been chosen with many others as well."

What have I been chosen for? Why?

People long for power. They wish to have control over others. What they don't know is what happens when you are given that kind of power. Will you long for more power? Will you wish it gone? Will you use it for the "greater good'? I don't know. You don't know.

"You have been chosen to partake in a ritual that has been planned for centuries."

You can only guess.

I don't want this power. The poor immortal sobs.

"You avoid your destiny. Why? Isn't this what you have always wanted?"

No.

"Then tell me immortal. What is that you truly want? What is your greatest desire?"

The immortal fell to his knees. He sobbed harder than before. You would never understand. As much as I wish everything to go back to normal and to see my wife again, I have another wish much deeper than that. Even though the tears continued to run down the immortals face he stood and faced her. Existing only here in a place where time and space doesn't exist. You are not worthy to rule when all you play are games. We do not need you. You are fake. A joke. For being a god, you are so narrow minded. Only the worthy ones get rewarded. I wish we had a loving, understandable, compassionate, all knowing god, where he is even given a name to glorify how wonderful he is. I wish you would cease to exist, and have God become king.

"If that's what you desire. So, be it."

What should be taken from this is that man could never live without God. In some weird way, I wrote this as a metaphor. If there was such a place where God didn't exist, man would still long for a loving and caring god. Given the power of God, this man, Joshua Malachi refused it, and wished for a King.