Chapter 13 - Influence

Kenny and Angelika spent the late evening together at Kenny’s house. Though Angelika was a divine angel, she still was very humane and so Kenny didn’t feel any discomfort whatsoever whilst communicating with her.
- “So Kenny, tell me a bit about yourself. I know who you are, but not your life story.” Angelika started.
- “Ah well, I’m too average to be interesting.” Kenny said negatively.
- “Come on. You have a good soul, so surely it’s filled with good emotions from the past.”
- “Not really. Except for my job I don’t have anything.”
- “No girlfriend? No family?”
- “My parents died in a car crash when I was a teen. I lived with my aunt and uncle until I was 21. That’s when I got this job and so could pay my own bills. Had a girlfriend once, but it didn’t work out.”
- “Why didn’t it work out?” Angelika was curious.
- “We were very different people with different ideas on how to spend time. I was committed to my job; she was to hanging around with her friends.”
- “I see. Well I have to please you that your love life is going to be good…”
- “How do you know that?”
- “Good people like you eventually find someone, providing they put some effort into it and I know that you’re a hard worker.”
- “How about you? What do you usually do in Heaven?”
- “There’s a lot to do in Heaven. I don’t want to spoil it for you. When your time comes – you’ll see it all for yourself.”
- “So how are we going to go about capturing that last robber? And how are we going to improve him?” Kenny changed the subject slightly.
- “You see there are two types of people in the world: those who improve upon difficulties and those who regress. During normal circumstances everyone seems the same. It is when you push people to the limit you can see the difference, when they suffer and experience a great deal of evil. Those who improve, they see evil and they know it’s wrong, they realise its consequences and how it taints their soul, hence they fight it as best as they can.”
- “And the others?”
- “The others get taken by evil. They feel that if they had to endure that then no-one else has a right to happiness. They need to lift their self-esteem back up and the only way they can do that is by bringing down everyone else around them. It’s truly a distorted way of thinking, but unfortunately it’s quite common. We angels try to improve those people before it’s too late. Because you know once the evil in them has been awakened then it’s exponentially harder to improve them.”
- “But then that brings us to what I said – the robbers and terrorists are a lost cause. They’ll be hard to improve.”
- “That is true, but you know with great victory comes a massive influence. If we win this one battle, we will spread tonnes of good influence all around the place.” Angelika explained.
- “I like what you’re saying.” Kenny agreed, “You’ve really inspired me now.”
- “That is my purpose in life – to inspire people.”
- “Do angels come down to Earth often then?”
- “Not really. Like I said, most have their say through indirect contact. We virtues seek the particularly heroic humans and we inspire them. They then go on and make a difference.”
- “So much is happening that I’m not aware of.” Kenny admitted.
- “Many people are not aware of this. Even those who contribute to the good change sometimes don’t know that they’ve been influenced by a virtue.”
- “I see, I see. Well, I love talking to you, but I think I’d better go to bed now. Today was a tiring day.”
- “Yes, you definitely need rest. We’ve still got a lot to do.” Angelika said.
- “In that case see you tomorrow then.” Kenny said.
- “Just call me if you need me, but otherwise I’ll come by once I find something of good use.” Angelika said.
And at this moment she teleported away. Kenny stood there still with a smile on his face as he was really inspired. He went to bed and the good mood helped him fall asleep very fast and very deeply.





Messages from this chapter:


-Good people eventually find their special someone, they just need to put effort into it
-There are two types of people in the world. During normal conditions it is impossible to distinguish between them, but during difficulties one type will improve while the other type will regress. The ones who improve can recognize the evil and how badly it corrupts them, so they fight it. The ones who regress get taken over by evil and want to make other people’s lives a misery as well.
-Once the evil has been awakened then it is exponentially harder to fight it
-Great victory brings a massive influence and rise in morale
-Virtues awaken the heroism in the most heroic people and cause them to make a difference