Going for a walk

8 a.m tomorrow

The nurse hands me pills to take. Put it in my mouth and drink water. She tells me to open my mouth to see if I really took them, I do as she says and when I leave the room I take them out of my mouth, throw them on the floor and crush them with my foot, leaving them unnoticed on the floor. There was no way I was going to take that. I still wondered about the voices I heard last night, were they my hallucinations, due to the shock I received or were they really someone's voices. I hit my head with my hand, always trying to keep my wits about me.

“ Navid, let's go for a walk. “ The nurse approaches, very kind.

“ Where are we going?

She approached me and held my hand.

“ Come on, let's go to the activity room! You can't stay locked up all day!

I got up and went with her. Along the way I came across other patients, some very happy, others horrified and others who were simply in another world. Some looked like the living dead, spoke nonsense, murmured and drooled until their