The Last Bridge to Nowhere

Creative Nonfiction Inspirational

Written in response to: "Write a story about goodbyes without using the words “goodbye,” “bye,” or “farewell.”" as part of Hello and Goodbye with Chersti Nieveen.

Trust is the downfall of man. We have given our trust to others and taken hold of it as fact and truth and thrown reason out to the wayside. What this has done to our hearts is sever ourselves from our lives and bring forth no new understanding of a true way of living. Trusting others truths blindly only brings detriment to our own individual truths for we are better off being skeptical and curious about the world than thinking we know everything and all is figured out. We think we know better and we challenge others thought process for all we want is validation and boost our own egos that we have complete control over our own situation.

If you start to think about this bridge to nowhere it can be quite gloomy. The fun part of this is that we can all get off this bridge if we make the proper choices. You can say what you want and if you aren't ready for it here it comes, the life that is given is just an existence and you have to fight bare knuckle and grind your way through it. It's no easy task but fight you must for you believe all you have is this existence and you are living it the way you see fit. The grind is real and I know how it feels to be living an existence for I was once there myself. I bring forth this information so that there might be change if one chooses to understand.

What this means is when we fight for no true reason our hearts shatter and break into a thousand pieces. The bridge to nowhere is the foundational principle that what you reap is what you sow. Choice and action are what is at stake here and the karmic debt that is wrapped into it. If we chose to go down a treasonous path; we would find ourselves locked into an eternity of death and a true bridge that leads us nowhere to survive. The actions and principles that we rely on are the foundation of truth that comes from courage, bravery and valor and only can be found when using our hearts.

I will write these paragraphs about the heart and then we will continue to bring the onslaught of war against our reality. The heart is the most powerful organ of our body and we should realize that. Our brain is not where we are meant to live even though many people believe that it is. Our brain may die and our bodies still can carry on so what does that say to our brain and the true consciousness of a person? If you think you live in your brain you probably do; but what I am here to tell you is that we need to change that now.

Life is only given a chance to live when we realize that the biggest mistake we ever made is discounting our hearts as just a pump. Our brains even though are powerful processors do not regulate where the information is coming from. The secret is revealed when you look at where emotion comes from for this is a truth of the Universe that our efforts in trying to disguise reality only come in blind faith from people of little understanding. Our emotions are the basis of our intelligence and rely on the stimulus presented by our hearts to adapt and receive.

The reality of our brain is quite simple for all the impulses generated from the heart are what rise to thought patterns within the brain. Our mind is here to play as well but that is for a different chapter all together. The brain takes this information from the heart and rapidly analyzes it to generate what you see in front of your eyes. Without the heart there would be no existence or life all together and truly is the center of creation. It is hard to say if you will believe me or not but that is not why I am writing this, I write this for my heart screams out truth and needs people to realize their mistakes. You will be completely disconnected from your heart and be on a bridge over there until you realize your heart is the real key to life.

I prepare you for war for most of us don't even realize that we are at this. The life that is given to you is asking for you to bring forth the best caliber of thought and virtue to the table and all we can do is bring forth shades of gray. Truth be told you have never seen a story like this because there have been very few that have found their way off the bridge yet. True understanding that we are living lifeless within our own existence shows us that we have so much to offer this Universe if we allowed ourselves to heal.

I talk about war as if it is a game; thus is the game of life. You must choose your actions and choices wisely for they are costly if you do them incorrectly. The problem that most of us have is that we have no true value in the way that we live simply by omission. That being said, the life force that brings you forward into your existence is the same one that allows you to live a life.

I am trying to point out that most of us are stuck on this bridge to nowhere simply by not understanding what we are meant to do with our lives. Our lives are meant for true purpose and meaning and if you think that we are in control of this the Universe has something to say about it.

I am going to spell this out to you so that we can all be on the same page. If you do not follow the Universe you will not be granted a life but you will be given an existence. The truth of all this is daunting when you realize that you have stuffed that life over there in a box in the corner and you have told your existence that it knows how to make the best life possible

You will never know the pain and suffering your life feels until you finally realize that you have no idea what you are doing here and that you don't know what's best for you. I am free to tell you all about it but that could take many more chapters of a different story that needs to be wrote. The true confliction is when you realize that you made a mistake and that your life is not meant to be lived in a box over there. This life is meant to be an incredible and amazing experience and yet its so far away from what we call home.

Trust me when I tell you that your life is in peril and when you invite the Universe in to play, your life will not necessarily be happy with you. You have stuffed it in that box for as long as it can remember and there will be much healing and learning that has to happen for you to synchronize and become one with your life.

I find that there is no way to describe this so here it goes; your life is an unorthodox conundrum that is meant to be explained in a really simple term; experience. If we do not allow ourselves to grow and evolve than what is the true purpose of life anyways? We find that this is truth in all the right areas for the life that gives purpose to all of our existence demands constant change and transformation.

We get stuck in our own way and stop learning and growing as soon as comfort moves in which should be a catalyst for change but its not. The reason that it doesn't cause a catalyst in change is that your living your existence and not your life and your existence is perfectly fine being the same old, mundane and boring state of being that got you into this mess in the first place.

Being charged is an understatement for I set intention to wake people up with this short story. We have put ourselves in a box far too long and have prepared ourselves for the end of our days. This is what we think anyways; being someone that works in health care and time and time again when life comes to an end we are desperately scratching for more time and existence. The reality of this is sad and will be explained in the next paragraph.

What all this means is that when your flame burns out and you are getting close to walking off the end of the bridge your existence is all that you have. You gave nothing to your life for all that you have done is shoved it in the corner. The reason so many individuals are scared and panic around death is that their lives are desperately trying to be experiencing .. You can only see as far as you can throw and if your perception of reality is all about your existence, what have you done with that life over there?

This situation reveals that if you decided to follow the Universe for a change and look at what you have done wrong in your life, start clearing up all your garbage and start restoring a true authentic relationship with your life you would see that your life brings true value and purpose to your existence. There would be no question at the end of days that you have done everything that you could because this is what your life is meant to draw out of you. Your life would give you true reasons to fight with valor and dignity and pride. Your courage and bravery would speak volumes for anyone who lives a life with the help of the Universe is trained in the art of war.

Battle we must for the truth of this story of our lives is nothing is ever given easy and nothing that is worth while is ever free. Everything that is given to us to learn in this life is not given to our existence to experience and this is where it gets really interesting. Our life is like a boat that gets directed in the currents given to us and all we have to do is paddle forward. Our existence is something that takes control to operate well and this is where there is much divide.

Life loves flow and existence loves control, two sworn enemies that eventually need to merge and become one. Control is a hard thing to give up and when you receive your life back with all that control in you; that will be a sure fire way to end up in the sand. Existence brings forth our hard nature for we are compelled to bring out control. We are so focused on controlling what we do and exploring things that we are good at that we have never given ourselves the time or effort to arise a question that says "what am I supposed to be really learning in this life?"

The answers are out there for the ones who truly seek it, but mark my words there will be some serious changes that happen first in ones lives before they can explore what they are meant to be doing here. The fact here is that control will get you nowhere and that if you really want to say hello to a new you and bring forth the best form of self, one must realize that they have made serious errors in the way they are living and be okay with not knowing what's next for them.

Control and expectations along with our truth and belief systems have shoved life so deep down in a box that it can barely be seen. We have created a foundation of lies around what our true reality is meant to be and we are too scared to see that we can change as easy as making a choice. This choice that is given to us is the most important gift for the Universe sees that we all have choice but the big difference here is are you willing to change and are you willing to own your mistakes?

The old Japanese proverb I love is "fall down 7 times, get up 8." You will see no error in that for all you do is put your best foot forward and try, try again. It is okay to have made mistakes but the real valor and courage comes from allowing yourself to be brave enough to make the bold choices needed so that you can make progressive changes within your path.

You will never know peace until you realize that your life is meant to be lived and not exist in a box over there while your existence runs the show. Yes; they are two different things and most individuals think of them as one and the same. I am here to tell you that they are not the same and they are completely different . One is earned and the other is given. You get to make the choice on how you move forward and with that this is the end of the story.

Posted Nov 23, 2025
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Todd Crickmer
17:06 Dec 04, 2025

The prompt was "Write a story about goodbyes without using the words “goodbye,” “bye,” or “farewell.”" This was not a story. It was a rambling essay without characters, location or plot, the three essential elements of any story.

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