What's Behind the Curtain

Hello world! Instead of giving you something today that I spent countless hours working on, crying over, or stressing about, I'd instead like to give you a sample of what it looks like when I've just gotten an idea. These are my notes for a novel I've yet to begun, and I want to inspire you today to write your own what if. All it takes is those two simple, beautiful words, and I promise something insanely amazing will come out of it.

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WHAT IF

What if a few years into the future, it became necessary to issue contacts to the world, because eyesight had decreased so poorly?

Why? Because the world was focusing on starvation and climate change and terrorists. Presidents came and went, trying to fix one problem after the other.

Meanwhile, the tech freaks come out with more and more inventions that involve only having to use your eyes. Ex) the google glasses, or remotes for your home where you must only blink or move your eyes after pressing a button. Other inventions too that only need your brain. The strain caused from all of these inventions, added with the Sun giving off flares more frequently, is what damages the world’s vision.

Once the government realizes that over 97% of the world is close to becoming legally blind, they team up with the experts and form contacts that can be easily and quickly distributed.

This was called the First Batch. They were simple, the easiest to adjust and modify for the perfect line of vision. After a year, people started wanting more. The highest aristocrats were given modified contacts as gifts for their donations for the First Batch.

Then a few months after, one young aristo, named Colin Bonaparte, approached the International Board of Welfare with an idea that changed the world.

He’d formed an organization that had mathematically and scientifically found the reasoning for every single problem the world was facing. It had taken years and years of traveling and interviewing. What they didn’t have were the answers. They needed time.

Mr. Bonaparte came to them with a cry for help. He proposed that the population be given contacts with an upgrade that impaired their view of the world. He wanted the people to give up hope and gain depression, so they would stop trying to fix things. He claimed that when normal ungifted citizens tried to fix things they only caused damage and collisions. He stated that the only instinct left behind was the will to live, create life, and work.

This way the world population count would not be affected, but the creativity that was causing messes would be ‘temporarily sedated.’

By obscuring their vision, they would be given time to fix everything for the innocents, so that when, many years later, they get the Third Batch, the world would be right again.

The International Board of Welfare agreed, and the plan was thrown into action. Colin was named the leader over Project T.E.A.R.S.

Technological, Engineering, And, Revival, Systems

Tier One- Invalids are tested by being the first to receive it. Doctors who are aware of the natural disorders closely monitor them for changes. They are picked first because no one will suspect a thing. The testing is positive and the contacts are proved to be working. After a week they more to the next phase.

Tier Two- This tier was for the Incompetents. These were the people that marked below or average on the testing. At this point a few people had noticed their simpler friends becoming quiet, but most were focused on their own contacts. (To make people more willing to receive new contacts, T.E.A.R.S had a small group of technicians working on making the contacts that were currently being used malfunction occasionally, showing images of what would later be permanently viewed through the new contacts. This was to make the people concerned, so that when they got the ‘better’ contacts, they would realize the images that had been haunting them were ‘real’. This would kick in the depression sooner.)

Tier Three- Ironically dubbed the Impregnables, these were the only ones left: the dreamers. The intelligent, creative, strong people of the world that tried and tried to fix things, but according to Colin Bonaparte, only cause disturbances. Most were the young adults. (Remember that children are left out of the Tiers, but they were called the Innocents.)

The Innocents- the Innocents were considered the most important. They were the last to be given the contacts, because of the contacts were to not work, they didn’t want to destroy the future generation. Due to the teen mindset and growth schedule, the contacts hit harder on them then most of the world, other than people going through mid-life-crisis.

(While conducting this research, they separated everyone by age, for ‘contact functionality testing.’ There, people were tested for intelligence, health levels in both mental and physical stages, and genetics. These test determined who and how it would be separated. They decided all persons below the age of 16 be left alone, as they were all going through growth and all testing would be compromised.)

There you go! I hope it gave you something to think about, and if you ever write a what if I'd love, love, love to read it. So let me know!