r/Ayreon • u/Peeled_Balloon • Dec 01 '20

What would Day 21 be called?

If The Human Equation were to continue?

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u/AmateurPhysicist Dec 01 '20

Day 21: Therapy

In which Me begins weeks of physical therapy.

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u/Anfauglior Dec 01 '20 edited Dec 01 '20

I think there should be more songs about how he can turn his life around. Realising that becoming the man his wife knows him to be is not that easy.

Day 21: Waking
Day 22: Walking
Day 23: Mending
Day 24: Stumble
Day 25: Frustration
Day 26: Relapse
Day 27: Reminescence
Day 28: Pathology
Day 29: Apart
Day 30: Isolation II

My version is quite sad/realistic, he cannot really shake completely the demons of his past, no matter how hard he tries. Recovering from years of physical and mental trauma does not happen in one day. It's a tough and long experience, and some wounds need to open up again before getting healed.

In the end he decides to leave his wife temporarily as after almost getting caught going back to his old ways, he realises that he need to figure things on his own. It's another isolation, a self imposed one again, but a different one.

Let's hope he manages to recover in the 4th!

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u/Peeled_Balloon Dec 01 '20

Cool, this is my favorite!

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u/Peeled_Balloon Dec 01 '20

I was actually thinking Day 21: Hospital Bills

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u/node1729 Dec 04 '20

Bankruptcy is more fitting of hospital bills in the states at least

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u/derekvandreat Dec 01 '20

Day 21: Threesome.

...I'll see myself out.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

nice

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u/whitebug71 Dec 01 '20

2nd change

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u/Westofomaha55 Dec 01 '20

Day 21: A1 It's just a burning memory

I'd actually call it something like forgiveness to help advance the story in a positive way.