Ritika is an ancient philosopher, transported into our modern world. 

She is an expert time traveler.

She arrived on planet Earth, a place she loves to visit every several hundred years, in 2006.

It was both nothing and everything that she expected.

At first she was confused.

Machines that think for themselves?

Humans who don’t?

A glowing rectangle in every pocket?

She spent the first few years doing what philosophers do best.

Watching. Wandering.

Grinding her teeth in her sleep.

Waking up with night sweats.

Developing permanent forehead wrinkles.

She tried to escape to a monastery.

But the owner said she needed a Twitter account.

So she made a profile.

She immediately regretted it.

She tried to teach the Socratic method.

But everyone kept replying “💀” and various forms of F-U.

In 2020, she did what 5,000 year-old philosophers always do and moved to the forest.

There, among the squirrels and bad Wi-Fi, she rediscovered the old ways:

  • Thinking in complete sentences

  • Caring more about the question than the comment count

  • Sleeping 10 hours a night

  • Power outages

Eventually, other humans began to find her.

Some wandered in by accident.

Some came on purpose, carrying notebooks, insomnia, and existential dread.

At first, she pretended not to hear them speaking to her.

Eventually, she realized that she liked them.

So, she gave them tea.

She asked them strange questions.

She taught them how to write their way out of the confusion.

They didn’t always leave with answers.

But they left with something better.

A quieter mind. A sharpened voice. Renewed empowerment.

The year was 2100.

It was time for Ritika to fly home.

Everything made sense.

So she got her drone license, built a space ship, climbed up a mountain, and flew away to the year 2350.

Before she left, she hid 1,000 writing prompts and her stash of oolong under a rock.

It’s all a true story.

Just ask her how everything turned out in 2100.

She reads your emails.

There’s not much else to do from outer space, in a future timeline, on the way to 2350.