> Jed was just twelve years old — a bright, innocent boy.
Friendly, kind, and always smiling, he believed the world was simple: be good, and good things would come.
Then, one day, he met her.
The girl who changed everything.
At first, it was just curiosity. Then admiration. And soon… love. The kind of love only a pure heart can feel — intense, all-consuming, and beautifully naive.
He gave her all the attention he could. He tried to make her smile, to stand out.
And somehow, he did.
They laughed. They shared secrets. They grew closer.
And Jed, at twelve years old, believed he had found something unbreakable.
Until the day she blocked him.
No explanation. No goodbye.
Just silence.
But Jed didn't give up. He walked for hours, sometimes kilometers, just to try and see her again — to understand what he did wrong.
Weeks passed. Then months. Still, he held on.
Until one day, a classmate told him the truth.
"She's meeting another guy."
So Jed followed. Just once. Just to see for himself.
What he saw shattered him.
There she was — smiling at another boy. Holding hands.
The boy gave her flowers. Sweets. Things Jed never had the money for.
That was the moment everything changed.
He realized how powerless he truly was.
And that day, he learned a truth far too heavy for a twelve-year-old soul:
> A life without purpose… is the beginning of a dying existence.
That was the day the old Jed died.