Journal Entry #1

This is the first of my Entries to my New Blog.

Journal Entry December 18th 2012

3 days now. That’s all that’s left of this world. The Mayan’s predicted it a millennia ago, but we only confirmed it 20 years ago. First everyone panicked, but then the shock wore off and reality hit. All that was left was to wait. Some people took their own lives and all forms of government failed for a few years. I think it was about 5 years later, when I was 7 or 8, that things started to become normal again. Some people, like my father took it upon themselves to reintroduce laws and councils. They tried to get back to a life they had before. But your whole perception of reality changes when you know the world will end in your lifetime. I’m 22 now and I’m not sure if this journal will survive the end, but it is all I have to keep me sane.

My friend Samantha wants to have a party and “go out with a bang!” as she puts it. But Mike and I would rather be alone. Together. I’m not sure why we started dating; I guess we both wanted to escape the reality of it all. Samantha, like the rest of the world gave up on monogamy, but Mike and I. I don’t know.

I think we’ll go and swim in the lake. Just lie on our backs and float. And wait. That’s all that’s left now, to wait.

I was 2 when my parents watched the president address the world. I didn’t really understand until I was 5, and even then I don’t think I fully grasped the situation till I was 12 or 13. But when your family and the rest of the world say it enough times… It starts to become normal.

The world will end soon, nothing we can do but wait.

Author's Note

Please tell me what you think and if there is anything I might do to improve my future entries.

Reviews

[OctaBrain]

Honestly,.. the problem is that you're asking for critique on such a small amount of writting. Just based off of what is there, there's really nothing to look forward to. From everything in this first journal makes me believe that journal entry #2 is going to be titled, "well... still waiting". the main character/author is too complacent. My Critique on the actual writting would be to cut the entire first and last paragraphs. The details are too boring. Write about something interesting and slowly bleed the details into it. It makes things so much more interesting.