Inklings 2021

THE AGE OF MEDIA Surat Khetpal I kept asking myself, Why? Why was I even being asked to prove myself for this? Shouldn’t my word be enough? It felt trapping to know there wasn’t a real reason. I saw on the books the ordering of a new body, and it cost nearly nothing. With the price of one appointment I could buy nearly four bodies, and had yet to understand why I was being stopped. If I continued with the story of each appointment it would take far too long. This process of appointments every two months went on for nearly two years. In all that time I don’t know what changed. My feelings were strong as ever for every appointment and my design never changed. I eventually swapped and have lived in that body for almost another five decades at this point. I have never regretted it. I talked to some who swapped when it was even more difficult, and they haven’t either. They have told me of wait times not in years, but in decades. Some were not able to swap until past a century of life. After all of this trouble and weighing everyone’s experiences, I am still unable to answer the most important question, Why?