Levi stood looking at the morning sky, his thoughts drifting, his thoughts solemn and tame as he watched the clouds pass beside his condominium unit.
Fun fact: It's boring after reaching the top, not lonely.
Life... was mundane for Levi. Rather, had turned mundane after a series of successes.
A doctorate degree in Biomechanics at 15, A veteran soldier and commander who enlisted and successfully lived through two whole wars. From creating serums and equipment designed to help increase the survival rate of soldiers to being somewhat of a hidden culinary master, being the owner that sired several of the most popular restaurant chains the past few years.
Levi had done a lot even before reaching twenty eight. Among of these had even led him being published in magazines and news, yet somehow he felt numb and unfulfilled. Sometimes even running out of time. Life was finite after all.
In a different timeline he knew there were versions of himself that dabbled in things he wouldn't even dream of. Different lives, different skills.
Even for all the realism in him, Levi was addicted to the feeling of learning. The beauty of mastering each and every skill. Embodying new found knowledge and creating new studies and applications that were not accessible to him before.
With his wealth, he could have hired experts to fill in the gaps, but that wasn't his goal.
He wanted to push his limits, to test how his updated set of skills would overlap and show him avenues he never considered before...
An ever-growing cycle of learning and unlocking possibilities… Of internalizing and innovating... To expand his mastery to an unlimited number of fields, to seek beauty and at the same time ease the boredom of after having conquered a challenge you worked so hard for…
As much as Levi loved the feeling of mastering a skill, the intense feeling of boredom was always there to accompany it.
Comes then the questions… Questions of an almost unlimited number.
'What's next after this?'
'This will take years, what else could I do instead of this?'
'This project is too big. Will I even get to finish this project during my lifetime?'
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Anything finite becomes meaningless if you yearn to learn everything. And everything is finite. Always too big for a single man. That's why humans pass down their knowledge for the next generation. But Levi… Levi had nothing to do with the next generation.
He wanted to learn everything. Everything or else, nothing. So he chose to be bored.
'If only there's time to do everything in life…'
'If only. Then… What would life be if not fun.'
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To be continued.