Time to Go

Here's the email I sent my closest co-workers:

The End.

It’s barreling down on me like a New York cabby and there’s nothing I can do. Jump left, dart right, or just stand still. I’m in its way. And it’s in my way so in a moment we’re going to meet. I don’t know if I’m fully ready for what comes next, but I’ll find out. As I wait to see, feel, absorb the inevitable collision I take one more moment to listen to my coworkers go about their day. Bengt, legs kicked back on his desk, phone in hand is making plans with a friend. Sal is, well, being Sal. I think I just heard him say “Alan” as though he can only talk through his nose. The mouth never opens. Alido just kissed someone. Peter laughed, stopped laughing, and then laughed again. Marcus turned on a skate video, then uttered something about Chuck Norris kicking someone’s ass, and then went back to his skate video. Alido just kissed another person. Malcolm said something in a New Zealand accent. I know he speaks English but I have no idea what he’s saying. I nod. Stephen Land just called. Alan turned on some funk/rave/drumandbase/folk/new wave/hip hop/classic soft rock of the 80’s album that’s piercing my eardrums in and mind numbingly pleasant way. A phone just went off. Alan needs to get some new speakers. Lia is busy hating in the greatest, most enduring, lovely hate you can imagine. Justin, I’ve got those allocations for you. Zero hours on zero projects. “Do you know where Peter is?” Sorry Deb, I thought he was in his cube. Lisa offers her apartment to Alan. No she doesn’t live there anymore. Yep, he can use it rent-free for a couple of days. Pinero’s got her snack drawer of treasures in full effect. Bengt just hit it up again. Someone shouts out, “I’m looking for a good restaurant.” Kate answers and then goes back to crafting the perfect sentence. Who ate my gummi bears? Alido. Martha is pounding her keyboard into submission. Jamie just floated through the room like an angel. Aaron twisted that powerful grey curl a little to tight and winced. And Alido just kissed another person. I take it all in and then wait for the inevitable. In a few minutes it will slam into me and the end will turn into something else. The Beginning.