Walked Into A Bar...

With a broken heart, I walked into a bar at 2:17am to forget and clear away this horrible feeling I was having but then it was something strange entirely.
I never knew I entered the last bar on earth, with every stool occupied with faces familiar to me. 'Is this how crowded a bar is at midnight?" was my first thought on entering. News on the TV with no sound but displayed "BREAKING NEWS: Government Confirms Impact. The World Ends in 3 hours".
Weird enough that no one was panicking, with the bartender nodding like he had been expecting me to come around.

On stool 1 was my ex-boyfriend whom we loved ourselves so much but just didn't end up working out and just broke my heart into pieces like it was a piece of rag and served me a bittered breakfast to get my mouth sour for a while. He was just sitting there with no remorseful expression or actions towards me to come back into his life.

On stool was my old boss whom we both left ourselves in a chaotic manner because he wanted to show me the worth of what he could do and I was not ready to be oppressed by an oppressor. He was also only sitting and staring at me while drinking with no action or to say anything either to yell or apologize.

While on stool 3 was my best friend at some point in my life who we were so close together and we did almost everything together but with time we stopped talking to each other and probably life just happened to us.

Few minutes later, after taking the view of the whole bar, the bartender who had been looking at me before now offered me a glass of whiskey and said, "the world is resetting at 5am with a clean slate. You get to pick just one person to come with you and when you choose wrong then you wake up to live alone in the new world".

What kind of a situation is this was all I could think about. The people seated are my offenders in one way or the other and I still have to choose among them to live my new life with.
Flashback of who they were to me started running back to me. The ex who threw my love away, the boss who tried to overpower me and a supposed best friend who neglected me for only God knows why.

Why did the bar only have people who had hurt me, abandoned me or that I had ghosted myself. I guess that was my audit.

It's almost 4am and I have no choice but to make my choice of who gets to start a new life with me among them. It's definitely not going to be my boss but who should it be between my ex and my ex best friend. I was on my way to the mic when the bartender stopped me and said "you don't pick who comes but pick who you become".
He pointed to the mirror behind the bar and behold it was empty.

Only then did I realize that the whole trick had just been a way of making me decide how I live my life henceforth. Forgetting my old life with hurt feelings or my bad acts, choosing how I want to act from now on and who I want to become as a new phase of life.

I walked into a bar to forget my life but it turned out that I had to remember it first.

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