The People in My Head: Gary Fidget

Gary Fidget was the most supremely patient man in the world. When he was young he asked a lot of questions, and his mother always told him "When you're older, you'll understand." Sure enough, as each year came his knowledge and understanding increased, and slowly his questions reduced to a few core abstractions. Questions that had no answers according to many. The great questions of existence, of life, of human nature. He was eager to know the answers, but he was also willing to wait. His experience told him that his mother's words were true, so he held on to the knowledge that as he grew older he would learn the answers to his few remaining questions. So he waited, and waited, and waited.

Strangely, the lack of answers did not bother him. Each day he awoke wondering if this would be the day when some random fact would click and he would understand life's secrets. He was never weary or impatient or angry, only excited. He rested on the knowledge that since so much had come to make sense with time, it made sense that big questions would take a long time to reach an answer. And so he waited.

When he died he was smiling. As his family surrounded the body, they knew he had found his answers. And they knew that they too would one day understand as he did. So they waited too.