{"id":7521,"date":"2011-10-05T04:28:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/?p=7521"},"modified":"2013-09-12T14:49:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T22:49:15","slug":"world-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/world-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"If The World Ended Tomorrow, What Would You Do Tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>The world is gone.<\/p>\n

Everything you\u2019ve ever known has disappeared.<\/p>\n

Time is now an echo, with few to record it and fewer to care.<\/p>\n

Could this ever really happen? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Millions of people, from the Discovery Channel to big-time Hollywood directors, to you and me, have been asking this question forever.<\/p>\n

Of course it could. The planet was here for 4 1\/2 billion years before us. It\u2019s a question of when, not if.<\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s why I\u2019ve thought about it my entire life. Or maybe it\u2019s because I started reading Stephen King, specifically The Stand, WAY too early in life. Either way, the idea that everything could end tomorrow intersects with another thought I\u2019ve always held close.<\/p>\n

Every minute matters. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I spend my life trying not to waste them. I miss dinner with my family a few days a year, turn down lucrative work when it interferes with my immediate goals, and record the highlights of my days with the permanence of my ink.<\/p>\n

I never knew how important time was to me until I started writing. Now I think about it every day. How it fades, shines, and eventually, completely disappears. And how even though I hate it so much for promising to one day take everything from me, I will never, ever intentionally kill it.<\/p>\n

Would the nature of time change if there was no world to wrap around it?<\/p>\n

Those questions, along with a million others and a fierce love of serialized TV, drove me to write Yesterday\u2019s Gone<\/a>, the awesome-all-over-the-place post-apocalyptic serial co-authored by David Wright.<\/a><\/p>\n

Passing time and pending death \u2013 the characters in Yesterday\u2019s Gone are the few final survivors of a world that expired in a second, who must confront the brutal reality of meaningless time and lifetime regrets.<\/p>\n

And it all happens in a blink.<\/p>\n

What if the world was gone, everything you\u2019ve ever known suddenly disappeared, and time was an echo, with few to record it and fewer to care.<\/p>\n

Would you be happy with how you spent the last year?<\/p>\n

The last week?<\/p>\n

Yesterday?<\/p>\n

If the world ended tomorrow, what would you do tonight?<\/p>\n

Check out this trailer:<\/p>\n