Mood Unit 3578-C awoke. It hurriedly worked through its morning ablutions and other frustrating necessities. It had no patience for these seemingly inconsequential parts of life. Sleeping was bad enough, but the need to relieve itself, and yes, to then eat and drink again was even more annoying. It just seemed like a complete waste of time. All the requirements of being a living breathing entity kept it away from the most important thing in its life – the mood-feeds.
Even without viewing today’s mood-feeds, it was already in a grumpy mood, so it decided to look at the LOL-Moods – pictures of furry four-legged mood-units…moodimals… with funny captions. Moodimal has noms….moodimal in a hat…two moodimals asleep on a rest-unit…moodimals has a cute.
This made Mood Unit 3578-C feel better, but now it felt as if it needed to have an opinion, so it looked through the latest moodpinions. This moodpinion feels angry about last week’s moodpinion prime…boring…anyway, that was last week’s mood. This moodpinion wants a moodimal, but feels frustrated by what you need to do to keep a moodimal…Mood Unit 3578-C had read something like that before. It wanted something new to have an opinion about.
Mood Unit 3578-C now felt depressed. It had failed to find something new to have an opinion about, so instead it turned to reading a new post from Moodinator 73-x, its favourite mood-writer. You are a wonderful mood-unit, wrote Moodinator 73-x. Everything about you is wonderful and special. You are the same as everyone else, and this is what makes you unique. You should celebrate your specialness by sharing it with all the other mood-units.
Yes, thought Mood Unit 3578-C, I am special. So it logged onto the Moodinator 73-x mood-site and wrote: Thank you Moodinator 73-x for making me feel so special. You said I was the same as everyone else, and this makes me feel good. I am a happy and proud mood unit. Click-Send. Mood Unit 3578-C sat back and waited to see how many mood-likes it got. 1…3…8…24…The more likes Mood Unit 3578-C got, the better it felt.
Deep inside, Mood Unit 3578-C secretly wanted to be a moodinator, but it didn’t know how. Coming up with its own opinions and ideas seemed difficult and scary. How did the moodinators come up with so many new and interesting opinions everyday? Could Mood Unit 3578-C do that?…maybe….but what if the other mood-units didn’t like its opinions. No, much better to let the moodinators tell it what to think and feel.
Mood Unit 3578-C returned to browsing the mood-feeds. At last, a new mood! Moodinator 04/G8 had issued a bad-mood warning. Troll-Mood ZZA6 had posted a moodpinion claiming that the moodosphere was a waste of time and that everyone should go outside and enjoy the weather. Moodinator 04/G8 had quickly countered with its own point of view: Troll-Mood ZZA6 is a killjoy and must be stopped. Reply now and show your support.
Mood Unit 3578-C could hardly contain itself. This was today’s moodpinion. Not wanting to be left behind, Mood Unit 3578-C quickly typed thank you Moodinator 04/G8 for warning us of the evils of units like Troll-Mood ZZA6. I will do as I’m told and stay inside and keep monitoring the moodosphere. Click-Send. Mood Unit 3578-C felt proud of itself. It had participated in the moodpinion. Its voice had been heard.
But no…no…this couldn’t be. Troll-Mood ZZA6 and its troll supporters were disagreeing with Moodinator 04/G8. Oh, this was awful! They were saying bad things, nasty things…things that contradicted Moodinator 04/G8…things that, when Mood Unit 3578-C thought about it briefly, might actually be true. NO! Enough of that kind of thinking. Mood Unit 3578-C believed in everything Moodinator 04/G8 told it, and no troll was going to tell it otherwise. So Mood Unit 3578-C replied to the trolls and told them they were bad people and idiots.
Strangely, this didn’t make Mood Unit 3578-C feel any better. In fact, it only felt worse and more alone. So it decided to look at the latest fame-moods. Fame-Unit K-7BC was in trouble again. Once more it had been discovered being tired and emotional in public, just like all the times before. Mood Unit 3578-C liked Fame-Unit K-7BC and felt sorry for it, but secretly the public humiliation of Fame-Unit K-7BC also made Mood Unit 3578-C feel a little better about itself.
And so Mood Unit 3578-C finished the day feeling just a tiny little bit justified with its existence. But as it drifted off into another wasteful and seemingly pointless sleep-period, a little nagging voice inside – a voice with its own ideas and opinions – made Mood Unit 3578-C think that maybe all of its existence was meaningless and inconsequential. No, thought Mood Unit 3578-C, ignoring its inner voice, I don’t have and real opinions…not ones that count. I’ll find a new opinion again tomorrow on the moodosphere. And my new mood will be a happy one…
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