The Diamond Book: Preface

Here's the preface to my, as of yet, unnamed book.

PREFACE


   It's funny how life finds ways to make your existence seem so insignificant. Take payphones for instance. You can hear the worst of news, news that may shatter your world, but after returning the receiver to its cradle, the payphone will methodically drop the change for your unused minutes. As if the extra fifteen cents can somehow make up for any possible ordeal you just learned of. And gravestones; your entire life, every little thing you stood for, fought for, bled for; reduced...to what usually amounts to "Here lies you. You lived. You died."   So it seems no matter what you do, you end up underground, just like everyone else.


   So what about your soul? Do you believe you have a soul? Where does it go when you die? Nowhere? Heaven? Hell? And, if your life is just a speck in the grand scheme of things, is your soul any different?


   These questions are what haunt most people. But the answers, it seems, are equally haunting. The secrets to controlling one’s soul…how long could they be kept secret? What if you could know a way to keep your soul safe, even after death? And what would you do to gain this power?
   It seems there is a way to defy insignificance. There is a way to live again. It is in our nature to imagine changing our destiny, but destiny has a way of changing everything, and turning one’s insignificant life into something unimaginable.