Sleep Walkers (Part 1 of 2)

James! What's up man? You haven't been picking up your calls or responding to any emails for nearly a year. I hope you're good, me and mum have been worried sick about you. I know dad's death took a huge toll on you, you guys were like the best of buds; I remember you in your teenage years, always alone, only person you'd ever open up to was dad. He's in a better place little bro, he'd want to see you move on and progress. 


Speaking about progressing, how's your new job in that top secret private company you told mum about? I always knew you had huge potential from day one, you and that big brain of yours, always prospering in any academic endeavour you took part in. I could never picture myself having a plain old office job, working them grueling 8 to 5 shifts day in and day out; scary stuff. I think deciding to be a field officer was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I'm so glad mum talked me out of joining the army, who knows where I would be now if it wasn't for her, probably fighting that pointless and expensive Iraqi war. I even heard that the government's subsidising a couple robotics and AI development companies. With your smarts I bet you could probably develop some type of contraption and get some of that tax payer money into your pockets. I'm just joking man, but in all seriousness you could probably join one of them companies, help em with one or two things and earn a hefty sum of money for yourself. 

Moving on to the core reason I'm writing this. I kind of want to talk about our relationship. I know we don't talk much but I'm really proud of you little bro. I don't know why we've never really related well, I guess we're just different people, but we're still blood. I hope we can start to talk more often, like more one on one talks instead of me going all the way to mum to get news about you. I'll update you on my life and I hope you can update me on yours in your reply and more often in future. 

To start off, my life's been pretty bland to say the least, and crime rates are significantly on the decline.I don't mean to say that because there isn't much crime at the moment my life's been boring, I mean if that was the case everyone would be safe and I would get to enjoy some extra free time while still being paid, but that's not the case. Instead crime rates are down and suicides are up, so instead of saving lives we're just confirming the lose of lives were lost on the persons own accord; or at least their half accord. What I mean is, that huge new suicide "religion" that started up after that randomer's death a year back has somehow managed to amass a huge following that tagging them a cult is officially prejudice. I swear political correctness will be the death of us. Another absurd thing on the rise is the number of sleep walkers. Every other day we get calls from residents of local communities and night time strollers to report people "sleep walking" unconsciously wandering the streets rather dangerously. Last month there were two cases of sleep walkers getting hit by cars late into the night; I don't even know if the injured survived or not, but frankly that's not my concern. I know I sound harsh and all but at this point I've had it up to here with all the bullshit errands I have to run because of people who want to end their lives. 

I think that's enough sharing. I want to avoid making this email too lengthy because I know you're super busy and a longer email might just equal shorter money. Jokes, but seriously bro, I'd love a response from you. I'd like to hear you're opinion on suicide and whether or not we should waste our time and resources trying to stop a movement no-one is forced into, you always have something eccentric but true to say, what's that word you always say... esoteric or something. Yeah, I'd like to hear your esoteric opinion on suicide, I'm sure it's going to be something raw and true. I think when I get home I'll read the randomer's memo that all them cult members are dying over, pun intended, I bet Nina would love to read it aswell, she's always been into them cult lore type things, part of the reason I fell in love with her. I think that's enough about my life, can't wait to hear about yours...