My Story of the Universe       By Rick Allen Harrington Rick proceeded to live life in his new problem style life again where over time,... life got worse than it had ever been in his first 22 years of life. Then one night it happened. He was lying in bed in the dark,... all of a sudden everything was very quiet... All his thought's had stopped,.... and then he felt something vibrate into his brain. The Earth just let the jealous lifeform into Rick's brain. Rick knew that something just happened,... but he didn't know what or why. . . The Earth had never told Rick anything about this part. After that life changes were,.... he started drooling in bed,... he'd wake up drooling on his pillow. Something that he don't remember ever doing before... And he couldn't remember how to work on cars anymore. Something that he had to do quite a bit and had lots of experience with,... but now it's like,... he don't even remember how to change the brakes. It was like he had changed and was not even able to be like himself anymore,... but he remembered little bits now and then. One day he just broke down and cried about it all. He called it a nervous break down. And maybe it kind of was. Work was good at this time for him though. He had plenty of work. And one company even sent him to New York to work on Fort Drum military base. He was sent there along with one other guy to be the boss of the painting crew. But when him, his superintendent and the other guy got to the first construction meeting. None of the construction bosses would talk to him. They acted like they didn't even want to look at him. And talked to the other guy instead. Rick looked at his superintendent as if somethings wrong here,.. and his superintendent thinks for a second, looks up, clears his throat as says "Jesus Christ". He says it as if Rick is Jesus Christ. Rick didn't like that and left the room. He didn't like the superintendent using that in order to try to change things that were going on in there. And the other guy ended up getting the boss job for that job. It took two weeks for Rick to get his first paycheck from that job. And when he did,... he noticed that they lowered his pay. So Rick called the Superintendent and told him that was not the deal that he had signed up for. The superintendent told Rick that things aren't going to change and that he's just going to have to work for that amount. So Rick decided to quit,... and go home. Where he ended up on another big job painting a Sheriton Hotel. It was an odd time where crew members were acting funny around him. Rick didn't talk a whole lot on this job,... but he decided to say something to one of the wallpaper crew guys one day. And after that,... that guy would stick his butt out every time Rick looked his way. Rick thought it was kind of funny and strange,... and how people seem to be thinking like maybe he's gay. One day while Rick and a bunch of guys were working on the exterior of the building on scaffolds. And there was lots of girls down below walking by. Every single guy on that scaffold stopped what they were doing turned around and watched the girls except for Rick. He just kept working. Rick looked over at the guys as he was still working,... and they were all looking at him as if they were thinking,.... "well are ya going to look or what?". So Rick stopped what he was doing and turned around and looked as every other guy went back to work. People were acting strange. And life was not good for Rick at this time. It was like he had just about forgot who he use to be. One day while working on this same job but inside the building and alone,... Rick started crying about it all again along with thinking,... "I'm Jesus Christ" over and over. But as he was saying it,... it was like,... But that's not real. That day on the drive home from work,... still kind of crying about life and thinking about the Jesus Christ stuff,... Rick felt a good feeling rush down his spine,... and all of a sudden,.. birds were swooping down at his truck while he's driving down the freeway. They were swooping down so much so that it was like other people have got to be seeing this too. And he felt like,... maybe there is something real about this Jesus Christ stuff. It wasn't long after this that Rick noticed that the religious symbol that people put on their cars and trucks had changed from a fish,.. to a bird. And it brought back memories of the birds swooping down at him. One of the next jobs that Rick was working on was spray painting ceilings in a Stater Brothers warehouse. And one day while up on the scissor lift while working on the ceilings Rick remembered how he heard a thought a long time ago that seemed to come from maybe a God. He remembered how he heard that thought while playing basketball when he was a little kid. The thought,... "you wanna be the best?". And as he was thinking about it up there on that scissor lift he heard it again in his mind. It went like this,... "you wanna be the best?",.. "YOU WANNA BE THE BEST?". And it sounded exactly like there were 2 Gods in his mind talking to him there... The second "YOU WANNA BE THE BEST?" came across almost like the God was mad about something. And then the scissor lift seemed to start swaying back & forth and it didn't seem safe to be up there anymore,... so Rick came down and went home sick for the day. The next incident that happened that relates to this story was on another small job where Rick was doing some drywall taping work for a friend on a Dentist Office. There was no body on the job that day except for Rick. Life wasn't good. And he was thinking about ending his life somehow. At some point,... just stop breathing came to mind which led him to trying to stop his breathing completely. He fell to the floor,... and it was like he was able to stop breathing. . . When someone found Rick he was still lying on the floor and they called for an ambulance that took him to the hospital. While lying in the hospital Rick kind of woke up,... but it was kind of like he was in a comma or something. He didn't open his eyes,.. but he could feel and tell what was going on. Some nurses were cutting his clothes off of him. He thought that that doesn't seem like something that they need to be doing,.. but laid there and let it happen as if he was in a comma. And as he laid there in that hospital he noticed that he is breathing. It's just much calmer and like it's only his body that is breathing. And it was exactly like that other God that he thinks he learned of was actually breathing in him right along with him. His breathing after he decided to stop breathing was different. So this led him to always be aware of how he is breathing. If it feels like someone else is breathing in there along with him,.. he would stop his breathing again. But he found that he didn't need to fall to the floor anymore while doing this. Just stop the breathing that feels like its coming from someone else. And his body breathed by itself normally and calmly. On the way home from the Hospital Rick decided to walk home instead of calling someone to come get him. And on his walk home he was remembering how he use to walk different in that 1 year of his life back when he was 23 years old and life was better than it had ever been. And all of a sudden he was getting help from the Earth to walk like he did back then. It wasn't exactly the same,... he wasn't standing up nice and straight like back then,... but the foot steps were just like back then. And he felt good on his walk home as if he knew that someone helped him to walk that way. Weeks later,.. Rick decided to walk to a friends house. It was night time. And on his walk he was kind of concentrating on keeping his breathing where it felt normal. And as he was doing this it was feeling like he could push that thing that vibrated into his head out of him. He started running as he was pushing in his mind. And the faster he ran and pushed the more it seemed to be working. He would run while pushing in his mind as his body would lean more and more forward until he would finally have to dive to the ground. That night he ran and dove into peoples front lawns till early in the morning when a fire truck came by, stopped and firemen started chasing him around the block. PAGE 5 of 9 PAGE 5 of 9