Loop Anew

Chapter 1
Loop Anew

Chapter Description: Loop around and change on the same day again and again

How many times around?

With the only change being yourself?

Eyes open to familiar sights once again, the ceiling as unchanged as ever with the same light and paint scheme. Unchanged and familiar as always as I have come to expect after so many days, years? Hard to say now as it's all become a blur of waking up to the exact same day over and over again with the only difference always being myself and other subtle changes connected to what's happening to me.

The same day in an endless loop where the changes started off minor before becoming more noticeable while my body, oh how that's changed. I can recall starting this loop on the day I died when I must have been a good, oh, 112 years old. I had and have lived a long time so when my time to finally face the end came I was happy to face it, I had lived a pretty good life after all despite the heartbreaks, pains and more that many face.

But I didn't die that day, I did die but I didn't. I remember feeling my body shut down as I breathed my last, I remember my hearing being the only thing to keep functioning before it too shut down. I was dead to all intents and purposes.

Then I woke up to the same day but I was a year younger, I thought maybe it was some dying dream before fading into nothingness but no, I really was alive and a year younger.

This happened again and again and the day in regards of it's date never changed, I really was reliving the same day again and again but I was getting younger by a year each time and as I did there were subtle changes happening to others as they all became younger though to them it wasn't even noticeable. To them it was perfectly normal and they weren't aware that the day never changed.

I stopped counting after I passed the age of fifty.

My hands in front of me show the same smooth young skin of yesterday, yesterday I was 18 years old which means today I'm 17 years old. A teenager. Subtle changes show a bedroom with a teenage flair to it, different of course from my original time at this age, more modern.

The day proceeds with more subtle changes as my great, great grandchildren, my grandchildren and my own children are no longer existing due to my being so young. My parents are alive with more modern changes to them, as if my life has been rewritten with this continuous loop.

The day ends with my falling asleep as I always do and again I wake up to the same day only this time I am 16 years old.

Will this loop end when I become an infant or will it continue until I no longer exist? I must admit to a certain trepidation to the notion that this is how I may die, repeating the same day in regards of it's date while I regress backwards in age a day at a time. I do hope the loop ends before that point.

Same day come again, 15 years old, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10. Single digits now and down I continue to go as the day loops around ever again as it is has done so many times. Why is this happening? Why am I not dead as I was meant to be at my time's end?

9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 0.

As I am laid down to sleep for what may be my final day I recall a faint memory of holding something the day I died, a gem I was given by a family member. They had said it was moonstone and that it meant new beginnings.

I had forgotten that it was in my hand when I breathed my last, I had forgotten that I was wondered if I could have a new life after this one.

As my newborn eyes close I realise that I have been given that new life, only not in a reincarnation sense as hoped for but more of a modern restart.

I created my own loop and now my loop is broken as my new life fully begins, I did not erase my previous life as I was worried about, I had simply moved it to a different branch with the creation of the loop. The legacy of my previous life continues as I begin anew, I did die and I began again.

Loop closed.

Same day

Altered path.