Hypothetically we'd never know if someone had the ability to freeze time indefinitely. Hypothetically we could have been left suspended for hours while this person (or persons) did as they pleased with the world - assuming that only organic material was suspended and not everything with kinetic potential.
Perhaps there was only one person who could do this and lived their life using it for menial tasks like planting crops in seemingly an hour, delivering their postal rounds in record time or never missing an appointment. Perhaps they died of old age, surrounded by people who believed they were the fastest human alive and that their lives had all progressed in proper linear fashion.
Perhaps they considered death and found that they didn't want to die after all, choosing instead to suspend themselves and leave behind instructions to bring them back when the cure for death had been found. Their self-induced coma may never end but neither will their life. A perpetual state of dying with no end in sight is heaven for those who sincerely feel their life fleeing their body and hell for the rest of us.
Hypothetically if this person who refuses to die was particularly insistent on keeping life at the exact moment of their revelation, their triumph against death itself, they might spread this and call it a gift. We could have locked in a state of suspension for centuries and not even realised it, we could still be suspended and this could all be an elaborate dream but that would be too simple, too cliche.
Perhaps so cliche for all the times we've realised this before?
Perhaps there was only one person who could do this and lived their life using it for menial tasks like planting crops in seemingly an hour, delivering their postal rounds in record time or never missing an appointment. Perhaps they died of old age, surrounded by people who believed they were the fastest human alive and that their lives had all progressed in proper linear fashion.
Perhaps they considered death and found that they didn't want to die after all, choosing instead to suspend themselves and leave behind instructions to bring them back when the cure for death had been found. Their self-induced coma may never end but neither will their life. A perpetual state of dying with no end in sight is heaven for those who sincerely feel their life fleeing their body and hell for the rest of us.
Hypothetically if this person who refuses to die was particularly insistent on keeping life at the exact moment of their revelation, their triumph against death itself, they might spread this and call it a gift. We could have locked in a state of suspension for centuries and not even realised it, we could still be suspended and this could all be an elaborate dream but that would be too simple, too cliche.
Perhaps so cliche for all the times we've realised this before?
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