Missing the Big Picture by Mr Luke G. Donovan

Author:Mr Luke G. Donovan [Donovan, Luke G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781467940917
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

OOPS, IT HAPPENED AGAIN

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

—Ann Landers

On Sunday, April 7, I heard Rich’s voice on four different occasions. Rich started to ask me what I thought of Bruce, and when I said that he was “all right,” Rich was surprised. His voice said that he was used to hearing Bruce complain that his roommate was weird, strange, and too silly for him. From what I was hearing in my mind, Rich portrayed Bruce as somebody who really hated me.

Even though I began to hear Rich’s voice, I was still able to function at school and work and continue hanging out with my group of friends. I didn’t tell anyone that I was hearing a voice in my mind. When the voice first surfaced, I was distracted by hosting an overnight guest. At my work-study job in the admissions office, the assistant director had asked if I would mind hosting a prospective student. My overnight guest, Pete, and a friend, drove from Syracuse to Geneseo. After I showed him my room, he wanted to smoke marijuana and find some parties. To Pete’s disappointment, everybody I knew had to stay in and study, as college was not always the party scene as portrayed in college flicks.

So Pete and his friend decided to make their own party. At eight that evening, only a few hours after meeting me, Pete decided to split ways and hang out with his friend in another suite. Pete said he’d come back in a couple of hours, but he never did. After a few hours, I started to worry: how bad is it to host an overnight guest and lose him? I never got in trouble, but it was clear that my guest just wanted to party.

As of April 16, I was still hearing Rich’s voice in my mind on a daily basis—sometimes three to four times a day. I decided to tell somebody. I didn’t want to go running to my mother because I knew she would get frustrated, worried, anxious, and maybe even angry. Plus, I didn’t want to go back on the medication again. I had gained weight on the Zyprexa and didn’t want to go back to feeling tired all the time. I couldn’t keep this strange experience a secret, so I told my second mother, my Aunt Eileen.

Unlike Dr. Roberts or my mother, Eileen was more open-minded and didn’t just yell at me to take my medication. When I asked Eileen if she thought this could actually happen—two people communicating through their minds—Eileen couldn’t even give me a sound answer. My mother told me that I could have all the boys whose voices I heard come over and tell her that we were talking telepathically, and she still wouldn’t believe it. Dr. Roberts shared the same opinion. Dr. Roberts told me that talking telepathically with somebody had never been scientifically proven, and that if I took the medication, it could calm all the activity that was happening in my mind.

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