Hey, my name is Tobias Kelm, and despite my entire google docs being flooded with story ideas, I’ve finally decided that one of them might be decent enough to bring to light. Lo: Black Cat. The story itself is aimed to be driven on an idea that sometimes the best of luck, isn’t luck for anyone, and the central moral of it all is change.
Honestly, I don’t think I’m worthy enough to actually sell my stories, but at short least, maybe a few people can enjoy it.
Contact me: I’m a really cool guy, add me on steam, message me on discord, both of which I have the username ’Arkenov’ and I’d be more than happy to hang out, or explain details, or whatever you want.
Without further ado, here’s the excerpt from the beginning of Black Cat, the moral before the story even began:
The glimmer of the city is a suffocating experience. It’s so easy to forget who you are, or where you came from if you start to realize that every car, every pedestrian, even most of the animals passing by have lives just as intricate and amazing as yours. They have pains, suffering, and hurt all of their own, but also gifts that are only theirs. Some are similar, and can be categorized. This person is smart, this person is strong, this person is attractive, this person has certain skills, the list goes on, but it’s still their gift and no one can take that away.
It’s strange to think that with all this going on, and all the people that pass by, people still get caught up in their own lives, and totally forget that others have feelings, or lives that are made better or worse by their existence. A heavy topic, but in 2015 there were over forty-two thousand suicides in the United States of America alone. It’s a question to wonder just how much they knew about how many people cared about them and their sudden disappearance. It really puts things into perspective when leaving Earth is a consideration.
And what about families? Tracing lines back, just how many of these people are related by long since dead men and women. Those who shaped the day that we live in today. Realistically, should we be thanking them or punching them in the face? They have given us so many good things, countries, society, electricity, and entertainment. On the other hand, almost every creation of theirs came at the price of blood. Each war, every drop of blood, gave us the society we live in now, one that struggles to find itself.
This society we live in, we point the finger of blame around. Who caused hate? Who caused pain? The realistic answer, is to point inward. Pain and hate are caused because we allow ourselves to do it to others. And what choice do we have? From the day we’re born, we’ve learned to point the finger, so should we be pointing the finger back, or be brave enough to finally start pointing that finger inward.
We think about ourselves. Albert Einstein once theorized that within the human conscience, there were two parts, that of societal humanity, and that of solitary humanity. To establish balance, it is that we must care for others, and ourselves. Both to better the society, and our friends, families, and strangers, but also to make ourselves stronger, stay healthy, and become more knowledgeable. Up to now, we have been focused so much more on the second, but it’s possible that it could be shifted. Maybe, through some amount of convincing, we could make humanity realize that the status quo is selfish.
It’s not that I love humanity so much. After all, I am a human, and just like all others, I have this hate, this pain, that I throw at others, and go back to being selfish any time that I stop thinking about it. No, humans are creatures that are, to this day, evil.
That isn’t the end though. Unlike anything else in this world, we have the ability to change ourselves actively. Not like the other animals and plants that are on this Earth that only change when their habitat changes, no, we have that ability to say exactly what it is that we want to be, and work hard for it, and have any chance of reaching it. That is what hope is. That is what makes humanity great.
Never forget that we have the power to change ourselves.