Room 101

‘The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.’

So Room 101 is the concept of a place where a specific persons ‘worst thing in the world’ is concealed, and is designed so that when inflicted upon someone, it will bring them to insanity, and complete loss of humanity. Therefore, to decide what would be in your personal room 101 is a very difficult task. At first I though of simple things such as a slow never ending suffocation (two things that I absolutely hate the thought of) but then I realised that despite these things inducing panic just at the thought of them, they wouldn’t make me lose my humanity. They can only inflict immediate suffering and pain, whereas something that is designed to manipulate, twist and distort your sense of morals and reality, seems to me like a much worse fate.

So for this reason I started to think of things that meant a lot to me in life, and what it would be to lose them. The top of my list was obviously my friends and family, so surely my worst thing in the world would have to be some sort of loss… I then remembered a film I’d watched in which the main character is made to choose who should be subjected to a cruel and painful death out of two people. One is a young university dropout with no living relatives… the other a 60 year old woman with a family and a stable life… He ends up choosing life for the woman, but the point is that I can’t think of anything worse than being forced to sentence someone to death, especially people that you know. I think this can only be described as the worst type of manipulation, and would rob most people of their humanity.

So, my room 101 would involve me being the subject of a dark twisted game belonging to a serial killer, in which I was forced to make a series of horrific decisions/acts, condemning my friends and family to pain and suffering… Morbid, but true.