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Paracosm

An unimaginable story

By Harrish JaypaulPublished about a year ago 4 min read
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"A dream world won't affect a person's quality of life. But now it has affected the entire world, "says Raghav, the astronaut of NASA, on a strange planet. "I am trying to control my emotions, but I can't as this planet makes me more emotional." Raghav's bitter past has been portrayed on the planet by which he can see and his intensity of emotions has increased. "I need to get off this freaking planet," Raghav says. He tried to get out of the planet's orbit, but he couldn't. When he tries to flee, the Earth's orbit pulls him inside the planet. Raghav says, "I know that this planet is my imaginary planet connected with my emotions." If I can control my emotions, I can get rid of this planet. Raghav, with great effort, forgets his past and recalls his pleasant memories and escapes the planet. "Thank God, I am saved, but this is temporary." I need to save the people of Earth from this paracosm which was created by me," Raghav recollected his past, where he worked as an astronaut and a senior astronomer. He had a dark past and an effortless work ethic to get on with the work of an astronaut at NASA. He used to remember his past and cry, but he made himself confident after he became a senior astronomer. One day, as he was doing the work of an observational astronomer, he discovered a planet near Earth and announced to his co-workers that he had discovered a habitable planet which was nearly like Earth. He was happy, but at a moment it was revealed that no one was able to see the planet by the observations he had made, and they said that he became mad after his emotional background, and they said that he needed therapy and a good break. Raghav tried to prove the discovery of the new planet, but he came to know that only he was able to see that, followed by the attempts of his assistants. He came to the conclusion that it was an illusion but later understood that the planet was an imaginary planet that was linked emotionally to his body. He called it his imaginary world. Following the break, he tried to propose a theory called the paracosmical theory, which states that each and every individual on the planet Earth has a planet which is emotionally linked to themselves and that it can only be seen by the respective person.The researchers and scientists called him "Fool" and decided to focus him only on the constellation observations.

He also tried to get a mission to go to the planet to check whether his theory was correct, but he was rejected by NASA. Followed up by some days, he observed strange behaviour in some of the residents of his residence. People started to imagine themselves in a world and they started to think about their emotional background and hurt themselves. Also, some people make an attempt to kill others. It started to spread over the entire world, and researchers found themselves affected, and some might find it abnormal. They initially thought that people were affected by some kind of virus, but nothing has happened like that. Soon, Raghav was fired from his job as he was the one who told the theory, and the researchers believed that he was a strange person and made him responsible for the incidents that were happening around the world. He tried to save himself and has decided to go to his imaginary planet to find a solution. He later decided to go to the European Space Agency, where some non-affected people helped him go to space on a rocket. He crossed the Earth's orbit and reached the planet of his soul. On reaching the planet, he noticed that it was completely different from Earth and that his past life was like a hologram. He believed that it was the planet linked to his soul and that after death, everyone must be on their own imaginary planet where they recollect their past and move on to their life after death. The planet has created so much emotional pressure as he was alive and staying on the planet. After so much effort, he got out of the planet as he controlled his soul with positive feelings and got rid of the emotional pressure and the orbit of the planet. The story traverses back to the start. He believed that the paracosm was created by him as he had seen his imaginary planet, which was about to be seen in his after life. As the life pattern was wrong, he thought that people on the planet of Earth had also been affected by the wrong pattern and also affected by paracosm. He decided that the only solution was to sacrifice himself, as he was the only person who had seen the imaginary planet of his own, and he killed himself. After a series of events, the people of planet Earth return to their normal state, where Raghav goes on to the imaginary planet of his own, where he sees his bitter past and moves on to the life after death process, where the story of a hero with a thousand faces ends.

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About the Creator

Harrish Jaypaul

Harrish Jaypaul is a student pursuing B.Tech in Information Technology.Writing stories and making short films is his hobby.He doesn't competes with art.He is just a person who loves art and pleasing to visualise the art.

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