His Hypothesis

All his life he had been told to be a good boy and keep his head down in the scripture, ancient words allegedly derived from the birther of all creation; that if he simply did everything he was told, that he would be rewarded with the most divine of vacations. He had been promised knowledge and guidance in the words that were present on the pages before him, words at his young age he was too naive to understand; nevertheless, he obeyed, because mommy and daddy know best; just have faith.

Then one day, the little boy had grown up and found himself starting high school; fear over the new unknown had consumed him to the point of almost ditching his first day, but once again he had been reassured that everything would be fine, so long as he obeyed the script he had studied since childhood. The young man was now revitalized with courage, the fear that had once enthralled him now nonexistant; his head firmly on his shoulders, the young man set off for his exciting first day of high school for he simply had faith.

His home away from home, the church, was for all intents and purposes his candy store; at least, that had been the very notions his parents had been telling him. It was here that he found more indivudials to call friends and family, all of them just like mom and dad in both spirit and wisdom. "Such a good young man." they told him "Paradise awaits you one day.". The boy truly believed every word, that he could do no long so long as he had faith.

Everything had been going according to plan, the young man finding great success in his studies with not a single issue with his folks at home; it was all thanks to the script he knew at this point like the back of his hand. One day, however, mere moments after arriving at school, the young man bore witness to two young women holding hands down the hallway; the young man found himself perplexed by this observation, for it went against everything that the words on the page had told him to uphold. "Fear not." his beloved parents assured him, "they won't be rewarded with the vacation you long for."

In time, the young man would find himself as a college freshman, where he eagerly began to enroll in several classes in the field of science. It was here that his professors, men and women who's life experience combined tripled that of him and his parents, bestowed upon him the truth of the universe, though it was not the truth he had been waiting for. "There was no creator" they told him, "Are life is meaningless in the grand scale of the universe.". Needless to say, the young man, still struggling to find his own path while staying true to the wisdom of his family both at home and at church, began to question everything. His parents, worried now that their beloved son would lose his one way ticket to eternal paradise, sternly reminded him of the script he had been handed at such a young age; but the young man, try as he might, could not help but riddle his family and friends with a neverending barrage of "why?"s; he hadn't had faith.

Soon enough, he was now simply a man, ready to face the world and all its hardships thanks to the neverending wisdom of his family and friends; but the man couldn't bring it upon himself to listen to it any further, he deduced it was time for him to live life the way his heart told him to live for the heart can never truly lie. It was not long after that he took the full plundge into the unknown and begun to live his life by his own creed; he didn't use his faith.

Many years later, the now elderly man found himself on his death bed, mind happily wandering back in time through all the memories he had made over the decades; the men he had kissed, his beloved children who were by his side until the very end, even his parents who had disavowed him years prior came to mind. When the time had past and he drew his final breath, the man found nothing waiting for him on the other side, he had realized the answer to the biggest question he had his entire life; faith was nothing but lies, his hypothesis finally proven to be correct.