Speech - Spoken Word style

'Animation':

According to the theory of relativity, there exists no “past”, “present”, nor “future”. Based on the speed at which you move, your assumption of time is relative to a continuum we define as space-time. This means that the amount of years that have passed since an event is relative to your position in the universe, kind of like a time zone. If you travel far enough into space, you will exist 100 billion years ago. You theoretically could manage watching the entire universe unravel the further you travel. Our world is not three dimensional but four dimensional, with the fourth dimension being time, and the past, present, and future all occur at once.

But why is that relevant right now? Why am I mentioning this? Well it’s natural for a teenager to question things, whether it be their likes or dislikes, or their reality as a whole. Unfortunately, I came across philosophy.

Now im beginning to question what of what I experience is real, and what of it is fake. Within the continuum, I’ve already lived, died, started a family, and every member of that family has also lived, died and started separate families as I speak. If that’s the case, have I really lived at all? I’m wondering how to distinguish between the real and the fake. We call imagination fictitious but technically we are fiction as well. All we are are animations in the portrait of the universe, frame by frame, we alter the 4 coordinates we exist within. If imagination is just as real as what we consider to be real, then what does that mean for our lives?

How many of the people in this audience are actually before me, and does the quantity of people differ from one person to another? Were my senses ever lied to in order to develop me, determine me, and differentiate me into the apparatus of the universe. If time is an illusion, and my brain exists purely of curiosity’s cloth, bound by survival and instinct, how many memories have I buried to survive, and how many memories have I created in order to live, making sense of what’s around me? I’ve been wanting to graduate since the eighth grade, cleanse myself of my experiences and live an independent life. At any moment I’m afraid to come across the realization that I’m not actually here, I just wanted to be here so bad I existed within a matrix of my own making to do so.

If you are truly satisfied, pray to never wake from this semi-linear passage of time. Pray against the interference of anything else with your destinies. Die nil of the assumption, that you already have, and relish these pre-existing moment that you already lived.