Undergraduate / Notre Dame 'good story' essay: 150 eye-catching words. [3]

Notre Dame Essay: A good story starts with a good beginning. Get us hooked on the first 150 words.

In the stretching longevity before birth and after death, I am omniscient. We all are. Unfortunately, in the brief window of time between, hereafter refereed to as "life", we are terribly, terribly clueless. A shame, really, to transition from pansophical beings to utterly normal ones and then back again; to be only be truly alive in the terse moment which we cannot hear the future and taste the past. A shame, yes, but also a necessary evil. For we are undeniably bland creatures, but would create an infinitely more mundane world if we were to remain omniscient during life. I, a boring teenage girl from Queens, become aware of this in the brief moments before my death, in the seemingly minute amount of time during which I can see the washing machine flying out the sixth floor window of the building from which I have just received the First Delivery.

And suddenly, I am awake.

I am awake because I am finally dead.