Bubble Theater

When you stand on the threshold of the inevitable, sooner or later you start mentally weighing up how things might unfold.I think it’s worth identifying several stages of coming to terms with what is happening:First – denial. You cannot assess the situation rationally and foolishly believe that everything will be fine.Second – realization. This comes after a couple of hours, days, weeks – it varies from person to person. Your mind processes the information it has received, and you are left with a final sense of inevitability.Third – action. This is when you decide what you are going to do next: stay in bed, drugging yourself and listening to the cries of relatives driven mad by grief, or run away, immersing yourself for a while in a new, but far more intense and exciting life.Fourth – death.My name is Ruby Barlow. And having reached the third stage, I chose to run away.