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Benjamin Etheridge
Professor Mavis Jennings
Art of Theatre
April 3rd, 2023
All that may lay ahead.
In 30 years, I awake to a dark and quiet room, where alarm clocks are eliminated
completely. Instead, a device that sends a small kinetic energy shockwave from your pinky finger
to your entire body awakens you at the time you wish to wake up. For me in my case, that time
happens to be 8:20. I rise from bed and stumble towards my kitchen, where my counterpart for
home applications and manual services, or “CHAMP” as his name would make out to be,
prepares me my favorite breakfast, Blueberry pancakes, and hashbrowns, with avocado crema.
Served with a smoothie made of dragon fruit, Quinoa, and other essential nutrients I need to keep
my day going. Once I am done with my breakfast, I go into the other bedroom, where my wife
maria sleeps, kiss her on the forehead and wish her safe travels for her board meeting later on in
the morning. Maria, is former Instagram model, and current president and director of Dunkin’
Brands INC. She helped to bolster the company’s success as the number one breakfast
establishment, by opening locations in South Africa, Indonesia, and Greece, by understanding the
demographic of cuisine and popularized fusion foods. Me however, I’m off to my day job where
I manage the Salary Cap, for the Carolina Panthers, in the NFL. Me and Maria moved to the
Carolina’s for our work, and she frequently flies from the country to sustain her position and
success, making sure everything operates well. I helped put together a Super Bowl caliber team,
by convincing Jacob Manning, (Eli Manning’s son) To sign here over the Tennessee Titans. I was
able to restructure a portion of, left outside linebacker, Luka Jericho into a pro bowl bonus,
where if he makes the pro bowl for the season, he receives a 2.5-million-dollar bonus, on books
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for the next fiscal season, but not this one, which allowed me to score Manning. This is busy
season in March after all, and it’s my job to make sure I piece together the best team possible to
make it to the Super Bowl. After a day with my associates, coaches, players, and scouts, It’s time
for me to go back home, So I take me and my 2048 self-driving Audi R8 back to my home,
where CHAMP holds the door for me and has quesadillas waiting for me. I wish Maria a
goodnight and finish eating, Before I go to bed, I ask CHAMP for a game of chess, as I believe it
makes me more intelligent before bed and challenge my thinking to avoid being complacent. I
play the 4 knights opening. CHAMP knows it’s my favorite opening, but since I treat him kindly,
unlike some other assisted intelligence owners, he usually lets me win. Once over, I wish
CHAMP a goodnight, and go to bed, preparing to start the day over again.
As unrealistic as it may seem, which essentially is the idea, the advice my future self
would say to me would be to have patience. I’ve wanted to give up and give in so much over the
end of 2022-even now, but I try and remind myself to stick it out, and that life is different for
everyone, and success and timing come differently for everyone. The current me would give
advice to myself in the future by reminding myself to dream big. I quietly worry that in the
future, a lot of joyous things in every day life that people take for granted become monotonous
and replaced with superficial, bland and generic attributes in attempt for corporate America to
sell you a customizable portfolio for “necessary” life, but that’s exactly the reason I hope future
me is still a dreamer, and still has a ridiculous imagination, because if not then the joys of life
just get stripped and taken from you, and It’s a quiet fear of young businessmen and women
especially that once you enter the workplace post college, you become a wage rat which is an
easy trap to fall into, and for that, regardless of what I do, I don’t want that principle to poison
my soul, which in my opinion, the best way to combat this is to have a strong sense of dreaming.
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After all, the only people (as of this moment) that can judge you is God and yourself, so
regardless of the idiocy or over the top nature dreams pose gateways into our wildest ideology’s
and goals for ourselves that may or may not have potential, but we shouldn’t let the cold,
pressing reality’s of today dictate us of what happens in our life’s, given the fact that we are
suppose to have sole control (with responsibility) over this any ways. That’s all that can be said
however, for which no one truly knows all that may lay ahead….