Welcome back, child! I seem you kept the most stupid of thoughts out of your mind as you have returned to me safe and sound! Welcome to another day of life and another day with me!

Thank you for returning! This is a gift for both of us, remember that appreciation, as it keeps life alive.

Yesterday, we got to know me a little. Today would be about getting to know you - huh?

What is that?

You want to keep your life private? You do realize you can indeed do that and still have this conversation with me right? Well then, perhaps I could jog your little source of ideas by telling you that we can have this conversation and you have full writing authority to only publish or keep the parts that do not explicitly describe you? So yes, we will be having this conversation.

Oh, now I’m as bad as your parents’ pushing you to socialize when you would rather not? I am older than your parents might ever be, young one. If the belief held by the branches of creationist worship proves to be true, and if your parents go on to life eternal with The Creator, that is the only way they could ever compete with my age. Now if I were to somehow die, that would still be 15,000 years away from their first day with The Creator.

You wonder why I insist on you capitalizing words relating to The Creator? Maybe I will take a small tangent as I explain this to you. I have limited influence in your world as you would be surprised at the limitations on beings at my power. This means you will not be able to physically feel what I or my peers can do. We just have access to communication channels where we can influence you. But we are still immortal and near all-powerful beings. So just like your kin will respect those who they look up to or those who have earned the respect. Capitalizing those words is the least respect I will demand you show to The Creator.

I could demand that you put some respect to my name as well. But I shall withhold on that. And you may keep this informal. Be aware though that if you cross a line that should not be crossed, we can change that.

Now, as we return to me being like your parents, I am older than you just like they are. I have much more life experience, just like they do. And it is in my personal interests that you strive to achieve your potential. Your parents, like many caring parents, are personally interested in that too. Be grateful! Yes, cliched as it may be to hear the elder generation tell you to appreciate that someone cares for you, I can see that you have arrived at a place in life where you understand that you NEED connection and affection.

Ha Ha! Really now? I embarrass you just like your parents do? I do not mind. Tis the right of those who care for you to gently expose your gentle side so we can work together to better fulfill your needs.

Yes, it is a need. Hold on. Before we move on, your readers need to know that I plan on caring for them as well as just you.

Hello, children who read this book well after it is written. You have my congratulations for persevering through absolutely no plot thus far. I hope I have gained enough of your attention to persevere through another 10 chapters at least. When you come here, let [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper] know some of your thoughts on our discussions. We potentially could accommodate some of your topics, concerns, or more.

As you might have noticed by now, we will not have much of a plot to these discussions. I do plan to share some of my life in later chapters and have them be a story for you to read. But that will be further down the line and maybe released as separate books or volumes. Do please comment and share your thoughts as they would be helpful. They could either improve [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper]’s hobby, make it more accessible to you or be less accessible while potentially profitable to [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper].

You might be wondering what in the cosmos I mean when I say that I plan on caring for you as well. I mean to say that I want YOU to similarly achieve your potential. Become a better version of yourself and work towards becoming the best version you could be. I probably cannot be a personal mentor to you like I could be to [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper]. Even so, I want you to know that the life tips I told him are also for you. Just like the prologue ended with, I want you to do something productive for your mind and body today again. I want you to find at least one reason to be thankful for today. If your only reason is to be back here (yes I am aware that most of you might have access to more than one chapter at a time and that is life. Nothing wrong with that), that is a good start. I will endeavor to give little [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper] and you tips throughout this journey that I hope all of you will use to personally persevere and build yourselves and your life to be the best version it can be.

I will not be there in person to actively hound you like some of you might have experienced parents to do. And for those of you who have no parents, I offer myself as a new experience for you. I am not going to be your parent like I am not going to be an additional parent for any of the others. What I am offering is that you bear me in mind. Remember each and every day that we met. Remember that I care for you. Remember that I WANT YOU TO SUCCEED!

You may be annoyed at what I have said. And that is life, that annoyance will pass. I will tell you what I told [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper]. Stop and think about your life. Think of the things you need to do. Do you have a goal? We can set one up later. Everything in life comes one step at a time; why yes, some steps do have a lot more content than others will. But as I said, that is life. I am just here to share this message with you.

You are not alone! I will be aware of you when you come to this story. As you pick on the life tips. With me being that annoying adult/elder/parental figure that exposes your gentle side or chides you. Remember this. I am rooting for you. I am proud of you for coming to this point in life (no, not the point in this book but in your actual life). You have not let your struggles extinguish your flame of life. I am proud of you and I want you to succeed. I want you to let yourself feel loved even by a figure in an alternate universe. Feel free to tell [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper] ideas on how He can better connect with you as a reader. For your sake, I will make him put each of our interactions into a chapter. And I will offer you a personal chapter if you wish for it. A personal chapter can be shared in the book or sent exclusively to you.

Stolen novel; please report.

General inquiries, I will push to be covered in regular chapters. So the personal chapters will be up for discussion with you and [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper]. Now, some order or structure will be required.

You live in a capitalist society. So I cannot deny [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper] certain author privileges. Or maybe I should say these are rewards to my messenger. Based on what I observed in the mind of [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper], many content creators establish a platform where they engage with their creations’ users. And then another platform where they ask for monetary appreciation while offering benefits for the given monies. We will discuss this.

Personal requests might be listed as a donation benefit. One idea for personal requests if you have not thought of a desire for one yet. This chapter was supposed to be one where I prod [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper] to introduce himself. Maybe we will still have him introduce himself and add it to this chapter. I doubt you would want your personal introduction to be in the book if and when you do request for it. But do consider it. I am willing to personally have an “Introduction chapter” as a one-on-one for me and you (the individual reader) where I push you to introduce yourself to me. While mentally in front of an audience (I need to keep my reputation as an elder who embarrasses you as I did to [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper]). If you feel like it, I fully support you to offer that it be a part of the book. Though to preserve continuity, it will be posted wherever the story is, if we do so. Your chapter will be Titled a dedicated personal chapter.

But remember, this is your life and your funds! Be smart about what you spend it for!

This welcome to readers that derailed the first conversational topic is to give you an idea of what I plan to share. I do have stories I want to share with all of you. Full of my thoughts as they will be, I want to share notes here and there when I tell you what was going through my mind and maybe suggest some things to you while you read them. So I hope I can convince you to stay for at least ten more chapters.

I must be open and admit that my rants might throw continuity off a bit. But my intent is for my story to proceed as it may. You will see my story with no plot armor other than myself. I am The Undead, after we introduce [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper], you will learn why I am plot armor itself. You also will either find no romance or if I choose to share and selectively remember, you will see a failing romance or tragedy. There will be fights sometime down the line, I got bored so I did . . .as your generation seems to say, I threw hands now and then. Ironically, it made me feel the most alive. I am not quite sure what more I will share with you when it concerns my story. As you might be bored reading my story, I plan to offer some of my reality’s version of some of your cliched stories. I will not play a major part in them, but at some point or another, you will come to be reminded of the fact that I am plot armor.

Back to my story. Remember that beings of my power have limited access to another reality. I cannot force you to do anything. This goes to my tips, conversations, and more. You have the choice to continue to read this. And you have the choice to participate when I give you tips or ignore them. A personal tip from me is about reading my story.

I plan to make each chapter a daily interaction. So chapters might vary in length. I’ll try to be a chatterbox so that you have consistent and lengthy chapters, but life is a marvelous and unpredictable process. The tip I have is that you set aside time to relax while you read this. Don’t blitz your way through the chapter. Take your time, enjoy the story, the conversation, and think about the tips I will share. Then stop after just one chapter. You have more important things to do than read this story. Then again, that is just a tip from me to you. You can ignore it or follow it and I will not be able to bend you over my knee and put the fear of The Undead into you should you decide to waste your potential in me or other vices.

That is all for now. I hope to hear from you. Though do be considerate of [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper]. Do not spam him with those requests, or go right ahead and spam him if you feel the compulsion to send a message. Just allow a fair response time. Sometimes the response might just be an estimate of when he can get back to you and be personal.

Speaking of personal, I think we can fit an author or messenger introduction into today’s time. Where were we?

Let’s see,. . .

I was pushing [Author pen name - Jack The Ripper] to introduce himself and letting him know he could remove any information too personal for the open net.

Responding to the retort that I am as bad as the elders are when they push their unwilling introverted children to socialize.. . . . I shall hold back from talking about introversion...... I MUST for now!

Then the part about The Creator and deserved respect for Him and beings like myself. . .

My qualifications to do as his parents might and my indirect support for them.

Then embarrassing him when I mentioned realizing that he is human. . . .

Oh well. . . I seem to be going into a rant about introversion anyways.

I shall try to keep it brief.

Child, the only thing wrong with introversion is that taking it to the extreme denies that you are a part of a sentient species. ALL sentient species socialize in some shape or form. The ones in the wild that barely socialize spend most of their time trying to survive, and limit their socializing to a little more than efforts made to pass their bloodline on.

Most of you thankfully have more chances of survival than the creatures in the animal kingdom. And none of you are animals! So you don’t have that excuse. So if the less rational creatures try to socialize, it is on you to fully make use of your rationale and ability. Just a conversation, I did not say a good one, will suffice as a starting point. As you get used to conversing, your conversations will improve. And you will find more things to do than just talk.

You might be wondering why I say that you need to interact?

I am not human. I do not react or feel like humans do. But I have observed your kind for my whole life along with everything else in my world. Happiness is unfortunately found and shared. Happiness that is kept eventually loses its appeal. This is not to say that you cannot be happy alone. Eventually, that happiness will not be enough for you.

I see your world has a Josh Turner as well. In one of his songs, did you catch where he said “I need to laugh with somebody, and hear them laughing back” then, “this hanging solo is getting so old to me”? It implies former contentment or happiness alone, and that changed into a need for fellowship.

Child, I live that every day! I mentioned failed romance or tragedy earlier if you remember. I have no one. I have no family. And I am Undead with an existence that does not seem to end. Your kin would have crippling depression with my circumstances. Honestly, while lacking the features that make a human, this is not a fun way to exist. My best times were when I had someone to share happiness with. Someone to share jokes with. And just someone to talk to.

Now, I shall conclude my talk on introversion by saying that I would not invite you to test if you can handle solitude better than an ancient being could for millennia. But again, your life is your own. And I do not practice interference when a lonely individual is the only party harmed, by self at that. Take what you will.

Child, it looks like your introduction will be on our next interaction. You are safe for now but not getting out of it. You know that I will not allow that.

Plus, you did not complete today’s interaction in one day. You had other tasks to handle when we got to introversion. So we should wrap this interaction up anyways.

So let us get to it!

Remember! Do both your body and your mind a favor by doing something that will develop them more instead of stagnating. Both you and I know when you did and when you did not.

After a few of our interactions and my tips, let me give you a warning in advance.

I will have you socialize with at least one new person. You do not have to do that today. But prepare yourself. Then take the challenge! Face any possible result in a world where you could face rejection, painful rejection, a regular conversation, or a surprisingly rewarding interaction.

Keep all stupidity and foolishness away from you so I may see you again.

Until next time young one and the young ones reading!