Even though being rich is a more relaxing
life than being poor, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t come with its challenges.
As Christy will tell anyone, her riches are a burden. Because of the position
she’s put in, she lives a simple and boring life. Her small but luxurious house
has everything she could want. She has a car and personal airplane at the ready
to take her anywhere in the world. If that wasn’t enough, she has various gifts
and trinkets from her employees. In terms of awards, she has trophies and certificates
from every major award event for her charity and efforts to help the needy of
the world, however, she doesn’t have any recent awards.
The news she hears is the same as
it was when Christy started her career of helping others. A few things might’ve
been silenced, but that doesn’t mean she won’t be reminded about them in some
way. Books and letters of causes, the history of conflicts and disease, along
with ads for charities scatter her office. Her calendar has several days marked
for public events that she will speak at while her social media pages are a
free space for charities and causes to advertise in. After doing her normal
morning activities, she sits to look over the flowers in her garden from her
room. A person she assumes to be one of her assistants silently gives her a letter.
It says,
“It's
time to stop your mourning
It's
time to wake to a new morning
Because
this is a warning you should know
So
you can be saved from your woes
You
know what causes you despair
Your
time for mourning has been fair
Now
rise from your sadness
And
taste the sweetness of gladness
The
Undertaker of Sorrows is coming after you
He
knows what you've been through
He
wants you to succeed
But
if you fail, he will do more than make you bleed
Your
ways have caused others harm
And
the state of your soul is cause for alarm
So
let go of what causes you sorrow
Or
the Undertaker will not let you live after tomorrow”
Before she can question the person
who gave her the letter, she looks over her shoulder to see that no one is in
the room with her. The room is large, and Christy is on the far end of the
room. No one should’ve been able to get out of the room without making noise
and it’s been quiet the entire time. The only explanation is that the
Undertaker himself gave her the letter himself based on what is known about
him. Christy looks around her house to find that no one is home. She checks the
working schedules of her assistants to find that no one is working today to confirm
her explanation.
Nervous about what she must get rid
of, Christy looks through her possessions, gathers the ones that she has the
most attachment to, and sends a message to a charity to pick them up. Moments
later, she meets a man at the door who has arrived to pick up these
possessions. He smiles, tips his hat, and picks up everything surprisingly
easily despite how heavy they all are. Christy doesn’t see the man’s face, but when
she turns around, she sees a similarly dressed pick-up man. She turns around
again to see the Undertaker of Sorrows grin at her, tip his hat, and drive off
with her possessions. Seeing that someone has already picked up her
possessions, the pick-up man gets back in his truck and drives away too.
Feeling a bit of relief from giving
away her possessions, Christy goes back to relax only to find the same letter
on her bed in an unopened condition. After reading it again, she looks up to
see the Undertaker watering her flowers. He looks up to her with his smile,
which pushes her to action. She gathers resignation letters from her employees
that note their sorrow in leaving her and gives them to the Undertaker. He
shakes his head.
Going through her possession again,
she finds letters from her family that detail their concern for her. The Undertaker
rejects these as well. Next, she gives him letters from organizations that are about
them wondering about her periods of recent inactivity and her meager giving.
That isn’t what the Undertaker is looking for. How about a wedding ring? Nope. Past
awards? No. Gifts from the deceased who she said she would help? Not even
close. Everything in her gives reminds her of her grief. She doesn’t feel like
she deserves it because of the people who suffer in the world while she lives
in luxury.
There’s only one last thing she can
think she could give. She lights her house on fire then gets a knife and cuts
her throat in front of the Undertaker who shakes his head and waves his hand in
concern as she kills herself and lights all her possession on fire as a
sacrifice for those who are suffering in the world. What the Undertaker wanted
is more figurative rather than literal. Nevertheless, he moves on from the sad
scene to continue his work.
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