Random opening - CONTINUED!

Yep, I've actually managed to continue a story, thanks in no small part to Jake's rather motivational comment :) This carries on directly from yesterday's post, which is probably directly below this one, but for the sake of good practice here's a link.

Jimmy Sawyer noticed, and he despaired at the state of days these days.

Apart from that though, Jimmy was a fairly normal guy. Or at least, he appeared to be pretty normal as far as his friends could tell based on the people they knew, and that’s about as normal as anyone can get.*

But Jimmy was not normal. Jimmy was special. Jimmy had a DESTINY! Not just a run-of-the-mill, metaphorical destiny, but a proper, written-in-stone, capital-letter Destiny.

This made him, in the run of things, quite unusual. You see, contrary to popular belief, most people don’t have a Destiny; they just trundle merrily along according to free will or determinism as their particular universe sees fit. But some people, very few, are chosen to be different, to be special, to uniquely alter the workings of their universe in immeasurable ways. These people are destined to have a Destiny.

Jimmy sawyer was not one of these people. For him, of all people, to have his own Destiny would be so unlikely as to be almost impossible. Instead, he was merely the victim of a bureaucratic error, which happens all the time and isn’t unusual at all.

It was also all his parents’ fault.

*A bored scientist once tried to define the “normal person” by averaging out every attribute of every person in existence. He published his findings as follows: 1. Postage to Mongolia is really expensive. 2. The average person does not respond to meticulously detailed questionnaires. 3. People are into some weird shit.

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After some frenzied scribbling yesterday, I actually have a pretty good idea of what happens next, so I might actually finish this. We'll see.