My Infatuation With Death

Chapter 49 : Welcome back to reality

Perspective : Conrad Garnier

It's funny how human psyche works?

The mere sight of gold makes us forget our sufferings, It makes us blind. It makes us oblivious to the obvious abomination that lay before us.

There was a huge dead centipede, whose limbs were made of gold.

Yeah, nothing suspicious or ominous about that, isn't it?

Truth be told, the mere sight of gold to us was like a life-giving oasis to a person desperately parched with thirst.

We can't help but be drawn to that sight, It was the reason of our sufferings, It was meant to be our reward.

Because,

Our greed was a guiding light, that kept us going, we never faltered, never lost hope.

And, when we saw what we wanted, the beacon and the fruit of our labour.

We became complacent.

Full filling an unspoken commitment to our fallen comrades,

"so, what if we let our guards down?"

"So, what if we became blind to the obvious truth around us?".

"Atleast that much should be allowed".

"Or does it?".

Standing right there, I felt noth