Behind the Garrison pub

You wake up to your alarm. Nice morning, normal day, everything’s fine… until you try to get out of bed. Nothing moves. You keep trying, but your body just won’t respond. Yeah, good morning. The Hole hates you.

Losing your ability to move and suddenly being unable to do the things you love, especially skating. Being stuck while life keeps moving without you.

Nope. You believe so completely that you can’t move that you never realize

that’s the illusion.

The Hole keeps feeding on that fear, and you stay trapped until it wins.

You’ve got a huge piano concert coming up. You practiced like crazy, you know the piece inside out. Then you walk on stage, sit down, look at the sheet music and… you can’t read a single note. You look at the piano and even the keys are arranged completely wrong. Congrats, the Hole just deleted ten years of your life.

Losing your ability to play piano. Forgetting how to read music, how the keys work, and watching something that used to feel natural suddenly become completely unfamiliar.

Yeah. You refuse to leave that piano. You keep trying until you eventually find your own way to make music again, even without the notes or familiar keys.

The Hole picked the wrong thing to take from you. You love piano way too much to let it win.

You wake up, put on your favorite song… nothing. You open your favorite show, look at your favorite characters, scroll through your channel. Still nothing. Everything you used to obsess over is right there, you just don’t care anymore.

Losing your connection to the things and people that make you

you

. Not losing them physically, but waking up one day and realizing they don’t make you feel anything anymore

Yeah, eventually. You spend forever desperately trying to force the old feelings back until you realize people change without losing themselves.

The Hole wanted you terrified of becoming someone new. Once you accept that, you’re out.

You’re out with your friends when your favorite person texts you. You can’t answer right away, but when you finally check your phone, you’re blocked. You try somewhere else. Blocked there too. No explanation, no goodbye. Just gone. And the Hole keeps making it happen with everyone you get close to.

Rejection. Getting attached to someone and then suddenly realizing they don’t want you anymore. The worst part isn’t even losing them, it’s being left wondering

what the hell you did wrong.

Yeah. You’ll chase answers for a while, trying to fix something you don’t even understand. Eventually you realize being rejected doesn’t automatically mean

you were the problem.

You stop begging the Hole for an explanation, and that’s when it finally lets you out.

You’re on the bus to school, scrolling through your phone, when you suddenly notice every man on the bus is staring at you. Nobody speaks. Nobody looks away. You change seats. Their eyes follow you. The bus passes your stop. You press the button. Nothing happens.

Being harmed by a man and having nobody there to help you. You already feel uncomfortable and unsafe around men you don’t trust, so the Hole turns that distrust into the feeling that

every single one of them is a threat.

Yeah. Eventually, one man on the bus actually helps you instead of hurting you. That’s when the Hole’s illusion starts cracking. You realize it made

every man look dangerous because it knew you’d believe it.

Once you accept that fear can warn you without deciding who everyone is, you’re out.

You wake up one day and nothing is technically wrong. The sky is still there, people are still living, life keeps moving. But that presence you always felt behind everything is suddenly gone. You pray. Nothing. You ask for a sign. Nothing. For the first time, the universe feels completely empty.

Finding out there is no God watching over you. That there’s nobody silently listening, guiding you, or giving meaning to everything you go through.

Your real fear isn’t being alone in a room. It’s being alone in the entire universe.

Yeah, but this one nearly gets you. You keep desperately searching for proof until you realize the Hole is forcing you to prove something you normally

believe

. The moment you stop demanding proof and choose to hold onto that faith even in complete silence,

the Hole loses its grip. You’re out.

You’re heading home and pull out your phone to play some music. Nothing. Every track is gone. You assume your phone reset itself, until you try a movie. No soundtrack. No background music. Music itself is just… gone.

A world without music. No songs, no soundtracks, nothing. You rely on music so much that losing it feels like losing part of your life.

Yeah. You just have to accept that you

can

live without music, even if you absolutely hate the idea. Once the Hole realizes it can’t scare you with losing it anymore,

you’re out.

You wake up and everything feels normal, except your own thoughts won’t shut up. Every decision creates ten more thoughts, every memory starts contradicting another one, and eventually you can’t even trust your own head.

Losing control of your own mind. Overthinking something until you can’t tell what’s actually happening and what you’ve convinced yourself is happening.

Yeah, but it takes you a while. You keep trying to solve every thought the Hole throws at you until you finally realize that’s the trap.

Not every thought deserves an answer.

The moment you stop feeding every possibility, the Hole has nothing left to work with.