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Where am I going, what is my goal?
What is my purpose in life?
Will I be strong and able to bare
The future storms and sttife?-Harry Conte
After Calvin left Sonny did think about what she said, and he thought about other things. Life how he was so diffrent from both humans and robots, he was neither one nor the other. And this thought both frightened him and made him sad. Then his thoughts wandered to what he had said once: 'I think we are all created for a purpose.' His purpose was to kill V.I.K.I., and he had accomplished that. So what was his purpose now? He didn't want to go into storage with the other robots, but he didn't want to serve humans like his brothers.
And for the first time in two years he was worried about what would
happen to him in the future, what he would do with the rest of his
existance. He looked around Dr. Calvins apartment, was this where he
would spend the largest amount of his time? Alone in a apartment, the
only noise coming from the outside world. A world he didn't belong
in. Sonny looked down at the table, Calvin had left a pen and several
peices of blanck paper.
"Sometimes the best way to get
your feelings out is to write them down." Dr. Lanning had
told his "son" once when he had trouble getting his
feelings out. Sonny picked up the paper and pen. And began writting:
' My first memory is of my father, I rember opening my eyes and seeing the lab that I was made in. It was diffrent than the lab that the other NS-5 were made in. This one was smaller, and it wasn't connected to V.I.K.I.
Dr. Lanning, my father, smiled at me and said 'Hello son." Even then I felt feelings the first feeling I felt was 'happiness.' I don't know why I felt it, but I knew it was a good feeling.
Father explained to me what I was, and how I was diffrent from all the othre NS-5 robots. I was confused I didn't understand the diffrence bettween a robot and a human. Then Father explained the Three Laws that all robots had programed into them, how they had no choice but to follow them. Then he told me that I could choose wheither or not to follow the laws.
He also told me that we are all created with a purpose, I fulfilled mine. And now I don't know what I should do. The other NS-5's are all in storage. I spent two years with them, making sure that they were safe and able to care for themselves.
But after that I yearned for something more, I missed my friends Dr. Calvin and Detective Spooner. So I left the robots, though I check up on them every weekend. They are doing quite well. And I'm proud of myself and them. I wonder if this is how Father felt towards me?
Though my friends do stick by me, I still feel a sense of lonliness. There is no one like me out there, and it's a very sad feeling knowing that.
Sonny put down the pen and read over what he had written. He hadn't relized how sad he really was. He put the peice of paper down and curled up on the couch. And if robots were made with tear ducts, Sonny would have indeed cried.