The Evil Conscience That Would Not Leave

One day Sean was struggling with a chemistry test in Mr. Nozawa's class, and he felt hopeless. He decided to cheat on the test, since he wanted good grades, and he didn't know anything on the test. As soon as he turned in the test, he heard an unbearably annoying voice in his head.

Conscience - "You cheated on the test!"

Sean shook his head, wondering if he was just hearing things, or if anyone else in the class could hear it. He ignored it. Two seconds later:

Conscience - "Why are you ignoring me Sean? You cheated on the test! I have no other choice but to reprimand you for your arbitrary decision to cheat on the test! Bad Sean!"

Sean started feeling worried, because he heard the voice in his head. He felt that if he confessed to Mr. Nozawa that he cheated, the voice would leave, so he walked up to Mr. Nozawa:

Sean - "Mr. Nozawa. I cheated on the test, I'm really sorry."

Mr. Nozawa - "Sean, I am very disappointed, and I have no other choice but to give you a zero on this test.

Sean - "I'm really sorry!"

Mr. Nozawa - "Make sure you never do it again, it is very wrong, and dishonest!"

Right as Sean left the desk, he thought that the voice was gone, until:

Conscience - "Mr. Nozawa is right! You shouldn't have cheated on the test! It is very dishonet!"

Sean - "Will you!…"

Mr. Nozawa - "I beg your pardon?"

Sean - "Sorry, I keep hearing this annoying voice of a conscience in my head reprimanding me for my cheating on the test!"

Mr. Nozawa - "Well good, because it was very wrong!"

Sean went to his friend Steve Hope's house after school, hoping to get his day off of his mind.

Sean - "Hey Steve, mind if I come in for a while?"

Steve - "Not at all, what's up?"

Sean - "Nothing good, considering I cheated on the chemistry test."

Steve - "That's not good, does Mr. Nozawa know?"

Sean - "Oh yeah, Mr. Nozawa is well aware of the situation, I told him."

Steve - Do you want a snack?"

Sean - "Yes please"

Conscience - "NO!"

Steve - "Are you alright, you don't look well?"

Conscience - "Tell him the truth!"

Sean - "Yeah, I think I'm fine."

Conscience - "No! You are not fine! You cringed at my voice! You need to tell him the truth!"

Sean - "Actually, I really don't feel well, I think I need to go home, I'm sorry."

Steve - "Yeah, you look awful! Later!"

Sean - "Later"

Sean Nelson leaves Steve Hope's house.

Conscience - "You really could have stayed at Steve's house you know."

Sean - "You know, you are really starting to irritate me! Go away right now!"

Conscience - "I am here for your own good, and to prevent you from cheating on another test!"

Sean - "It is getting really difficult for me to tolerate you now, so I suggest you leave now!"

Conscience - "Don't be so irate from your guilt!"
Sean - "You know what? If you don't leave now, I will cheat again, I promise you!"

Conscience- "Cheating is dishonest, and could lead to other things…"

Sean - "You know what? It is nothing but an interminable drudgery to listen to you! Leave now! You already humiliated me at Steve's, beat it!"

Conscience - "How come you are so assertive with me, yet so reticent with everyday people?"
Sean - "Okay, I have had enough. Leave right now! I have had enough of you, and by golly, you aren't even tangible!"

Conscience - "Your caustic attitude will not help in your education. Books! If you become an avid reader of good, healthy books, you can do anything you set your heart to!"

Sean - "Oh boy, I feel like I am listening to my first grade teacher that I loathed all year."

Conscience - "You need to be more vigilant when talking about important people in your life. You may not know it, but she encouraged you to become a voracious researcher of Chemistry!"

Sean - "My infamous first grade teacher, Mrs. Harmon never made any difference in my life. Don't think for one minute that I enjoy chemistry! It is the most mundane subject in the world! And don't think for one minute that I like you! You are the cause of all my ominous situations today!"

Conscience - "I always knew you were an intrepid young man, just itching to put his face in between a good book!"

Sean - "The only thing I have been itching for is to find out you have been terminated, permanently!"

Conscience - "Just imagine the difference you can make in this truculent world, full of brash people!"

Sean - "Okay, now you are sincerely trying to annoy me! If you were human, I would take great pleasure in providing you with some of the deepest lacerations on your body you could ever dream of!"

Conscience - "Just imagine. The eminent Sean Nelson, winner of the Nobel Prize."
Sean - "Do I look like a dupe? I swear, if you could sense just a tinge of my feelings towards you, you would start crying really hard and be really hurt!"

Conscience - "It is feasible that you are taking things a little too hard, and perhaps you might like me to sing you a song!"

Sean - "I have never felt so distraught in my life, all thanks to you!"

Conscience - "Old McDonald had a farm, E I E I O, and on his farm he had…"

Sean - "I hope you know you have turned this perfectly good day into a huge fiasco! I want you to go away!"

Conscience - "Have you seen the little piggies?"

Sean - "Geez! I have badgered you to leave for almost fifteen minutes, and you are still here! Get lost, NOW!"

Conscience - "But you are my friend!"

Sean - "Will you stop harassing me! I don't care if you are the worlds biggest loner, I want you to leave!"

Conscience - "I am only trying to help you!!"

Sean - "You are unbearably pitiful! You exacerbate every situation imaginable!"

Conscience - "My friend, you brought this upon yourself!"

Sean - "I'm ignoring you!"

Conscience - "Perhaps a joke or a story will cheer you up!"

Sean - "Man, I sincerely wish swearing wasn't against my moral ­ethics!"

Conscience - "Did you read the story of how fluorine went scuba diving with chlorine, in chemistry class?"

Sean - "Man, did you just indiscriminately choose me to torture?"

Conscience - "There was a mushroom that walked into a bar! The bartender said, 'Hey, we don't serve your kind here! The mushroom said, 'Why not, I'm a fungi?" Get it! Do you get it! A fungi?! HA HA HA HA, it makes me laugh every time!"

Sean - "That lackluster joke would be so much funnier if someone else said it, and not you!"

Conscience - "Would you like a glass of lemonade?"

Sean - "Stop! I can't take it anymore! I am unbearably annoyed by the plethora of pointless, random statements you keep making!"

Conscience - "Sean! I'm down here! Sean!"

Sean - "I'm afraid I cannot go on much longer, unless my life will revert to the way it was before I cheated on the stupid test. I'm sorry, all right? Is that good enough for you? I'm really sorry I cheated on the test! It was dishonest, it was wrong! Mr. Nozawa truly does intimidate me, but that didn't stop me from confessing to him that I cheated on the test did it? I beg of you, I plead of you, will you please, please leave! I am really sorry! I will never cheat again! I have paid a gigantic price for my actions, and I am asking you, from the bottom of my guilty heart, to please leave!"

Conscience - "One glass! One glass!"

Sean - "If I ever get out of this, I promise I will keep my priorities in order, and I think hard before making a dishonest decision!"

- Sean angrily walked inside his house still furious about his annoying day. Sean's frown grew even bigger he saw a letter from Mr. Nozawa to his parents.

Sean - "Mom! Dad?! Where are you?"

Sean's mother - "Sean, would you come into the kitchen? Your father and I would like to discuss an issue with you!

Sean talked with his parents for over an hour, being lectured on how dishonest cheating is, and how he should never do it again. By the time Sean left, he was about ready to hit something really hard, because he was feeling extremely irate. Sean decides to go to bed early, because of his anger.

Conscience - "Are you sorry for cheating on the test?"

Sean - "Yes! I'm sorry! Can you please, PLEASE leave?!"

Conscience - "It is my life long entertainment to see you succeed!"

Sean - "I am going to bed, so please leave!"

Conscience - "Leaves? Is it autumn already?!"

Sean - "Beat it now!"

Conscience - "Don't feel so irate dear! You had a hard day, but that is no excuse for being so careless in your words towards me!"

Sean - "Careless? HA!"

Conscience - "Goodnight Sean!"

Sean ignores the conscienc

Conscience - "I said goodnight Sean!"

Sean - "I hope you have a miserable night, like you deserve!"

Conscience - "Night! What a noble word! It means the sun has set, and it is time to sleep! Time to dream! Time to rest and prepare for a brand new day!"

Sean - "Please! Please! I beg of you! I am sorry I cheated! I promise! I will never cheat again! Please, please leave! I am begging you to leave! Please leave!"

Conscience - "A time of rest! A time to think deeply! A time of imagination!"

Sean - "Leave! Please leave!"

Conscience - "Well good morning Sean, did you sleep well?"

Sean - "Good grief! It is morning already! Man, I'm exhausted! I need sleep! I need sleep! I hate you! I hate you! You kept me up all night!"

Sean's mother - "Sean! Time to get up!"

Sean - "I have had well enough! I am not afraid of you! Show yourself! I want to see you in tangible form! Show yourself now!"

Conscience - "How can I show myself! I am a conscience!"

Sean leaves the house and heads for school, beat by exhaustion

Conscience - "A new day to learn! School! Books! Reading! Writing!"

Sean - "Please, please, please, please, please LEAVE! I have paid an unbearable amount for my actions! I promise on my life, I will never cheat again! You are right! It was extremely wrong, and this is the second time I say it, but this time more sincere than before! If you leave, I promise, you will never see me cheat on any test, ever again!"

Conscience - "First period Ancient World Civilizations! You need to buy your teacher chocolates for being such a wonderful teacher! She deserves it!"

Sean sits down in class, trying as hard as he can to hide his furious anger, and his severe tiredness.

Teacher - "Okay, to get started, I would like you to turn to chapter six"

Conscience - "Chapter six! Chapter six! Page 245! What great reading! Sean, you can read it! You will be grateful for your good decision to avidly read the text! Wow!"

Teacher - "Sean! Would you read the first paragraph!"

Sean - "Gladiators from Germany…"

Conscience - "GERMANY! SUCH A HISTORICAL COUNTRY! WONDERFUL LEARNING!"

Sean - "…fought ancient battles with the Roman Empire, and …"

Conscience - "ROME! ROME! THE ROMAN EMPIRE! SUCH A WONDERFUL TOPIC! SO MUCH YOU CAN LEARN FROM IT! EXCELLENT!"

Sean - "… sorry… and battles took place…"

Conscience - "Sean! Stop thinking violently! Battles are violent! Sean, clean your thoughts!"

Sean - "… battles …"

Conscience - "Battles? They are violent! Sean! You are thinking extremely violent right now!"

Sean - "… sorry… battles"

Conscience - "I thought I told you to clean up your thoughts! Don't think like that! Just because you feel distraught is no excuse for such thinking!"

Teacher - "Sean, are you alright? Would you like me to have someone else read?"

Sean - "Yes please, I'm not feeling very well"

Conscience - "Why aren't you feeling well? Do you have a cold? Fever? Stomach virus? Flue?…"

Sean - "SSHHH…."

Teacher - "Is there a problem Sean?"

Sean - "No Maam, I'm sorry, I'm not feeling too well."

Teacher - "Do you need to rest?"

Sean - "No thanks, I think I'll be alright"

Conscience - "You're alright! Right on! Don't worry! Be happy! Don't worry! Be happy! You have a good life Sean! A good life!"

The bell rings, Sean goes to his second period, symphonic band.

Mr. Fullmer - "Okay, would you take out the Holst Suite please?"

Conscience - "Are you a good clarinet player? Are you going to keep time? Are you going to do it right, for the right reasons?"

Mr. Fullmer - "Here we go! Make this your best one yet!"

Conscience - "Don't rush! Careful tone Sean! You played that note too soon! Sean! What are you doing? You are starting to play out of tune! ONE TWO THREE FOUR TWO TWO THREE FOUR! SEAN! KEEP UP WITH THE BEAT!"

Mr. Fullmer - "Cut! Cut! Sean! Find a pulse please!"

Sean - "Sorry"

Mr. Fullmer - "One two three go"

Conscience - "DO WHAT HE SAID! FIND A PULSE! FIND A PULSE! CAREFUL! FIND A PULSE! HEY, YOU ARE STARTING TO DRAG! MAN! FIND A PULSE! NOW YOU ARE RUSHING! BE CAREFUL! HEY! WATCH YOUR TONE! IT IS STARTING TO SOUND BAD! SEAN! YOU ARE PLAYING POORLY!"

Mr. Fullmer - "Sean! What is the problem?!"

Sean - "I'm sorry, I guess I don't feel well"

The bell rings, and Sean goes to his third period, Mathematics

Teacher - "Okay class, would you take out your homework?"

Sean - 'Oh no! I didn't do my homework! NO!'

Concience - "Teacher! Sean didn't do his homework! Sean! Why didn't you do your homework!"

Sean - "I'm sorry! I didn't do my homework!"

Teacher - "Uh oh! I'm sorry! You can turn it in later for partial credit!"

Conscience - "Be happy! You have it so good! You can still earn points! Not full points, but not to worry!"

Teacher - "Sean could you go out in the hall while we correct the assignment, and anyone else that didn't complete the assignment!"

Sean steps out of the classroom, and puts his hands over his face in awful anger.

Conscience - "Now look at the mess you put yourself into! People are going to think you caused trouble, which is why you are out in the hall! If you would have done your homework! You wouldn't be having to go through with this!"

Sean - "You want to know why I didn't do my homework?! Because I heard nothing but worthless banter from you for the last 20 hours! Take a minute, think really hard, if you can, and try to realize that you are the cause of my poor attitude today!"

Conscience - "The only person who can control an attitude is the owner of the attitude! I am not the owner of your attitude Sean, you are!"

Sean - "You severely exacerbate it though! Now please leave! You said you are trying to help me! I cannot succeed in school if you are rambling on! Knock it off! Please!"

Teacher - "Sean, we are finished correcting, you may come in!"

Conscience - "I have nothing but positive words for you! You are being ungrateful!"

Teacher - "The assignment today is the rest of the problems on the page, I will give the rest of the period to work on it."

Conscience - "Use your time productively! No goofing off! Make sure you do your homework!"

Sean pulls out a piece of paper

Conscience - "Make sure that your handwriting is clear, and readable, and remember, your teachers have to read a lot of sloppy handwriting! One less sloppy paper is very good for your noble teachers!"

Sean starts problem 1

Conscience - "I know the answer to this one! It is easy! Are you sure that is the right answer?"
Sean - (whispering)"Yes, I am sure that this is the right answer, please leave before I see a psychiatrist about this ridicule!"

Conscience - "Is that your final answer? Are you 100% sure about your answer?!"

The bell rang, and Sean started heading to the seminary building, for his 4th period. The conscience lectures Sean the whole walk up to seminary.

Conscience - "Seminary? How can you feel at peace knowing you cheated on the chemistry test? Are you sure that you are worthy to come to seminary today? What would the seminary principal think if he knew that you cheated? Cheating is dishonest, and a violation of the ten commandments!"

Sean entered the seminary building, and sat down in Brother Hinton's classroom

Brother Hinton - "Okay, let's get started, let's sing hymn number 98, 'I Need Thee Every Hour'."

Conscience - "Are you going to sing? Brother Hinton needs you to sing really clear and loud. Sean! You are singing off tune! You are singing off the beat! SEAN! HEY SEAN! START SINGING! YOU HAVE GIVEN UP! SING! SING!"

Brother Hinton begins giving his lesson

Brother Hinton - "Okay, would everyone turn to Genesis chapter 27"

Conscience - "Sean! You don't have your scriptures! Go to your cubby hole and get your scriptures!"

Sean gets up and heads for his cubby hole, and makes a disgusted face. When he returns to his desk, he opens up his scriptures.

Conscience - "Genesis chapter 27! Genesis chapter 27! Quick! Hey! You are in chapter 25! Hurry up! Hurry up! Chapter 27! Quick! Hop to it! TIME! 23 seconds too late! BAD SEAN! A worthy member of the church should be able to turn quicker!

Sean - "Brother Hinton! I'm not feeling well. May I please step outside for a moment?"

Brother Hinton - " Yes."

Sean goes outside

Conscience - "Common cold?"

Sean - "Please, please leave! I'll do anything! ANYTHING! PLEASE LEAVE! YOU ARE MAKING ME FEEL OVERLY DISTRAUGHT! PLEASE! I AM GOING CRAZY! I WILL DO ANYTHING, ANYTHING AT ALL! I AM SO SORRY I CHEATED ON THE TEST! IT WAS WRONG, EXTREMELY WRONG! I WILL NEVER, EVER DO IT AGAIN. I PROMISE, NO MATTER HOW HARD! I GOT A ZERO, DIDN'T I? I CONFESSED, DIDN'T I? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE LEAVE!!!!"

Conscience - "You are sluffing seminary! You are not in seminary! You are outside! Seminary is in session! You are SLUFFING!"

Sean grumbles more irate than he has ever done in his entire life.

Sean enters Brother Hinton's class again

Sean sits.

Conscience - "Sean! Are you listening to the lesson? Did you hear what he said? Are you paying attention! WAKE UP! You look extremely sleepy, you must wake up! WAKE UP!"

Brother Hinton - "Sean, you really don't look well. Are you sure you are alright?"

Sean - "I most definitely do not feel good, but I think I will be alright."

Conscience - "You lied in SEMINARY!! You liar! Do you realize what you've done?!"

After another unbearably interminable hour, the seminary bell rings

Conscience - "LUNCH! Time for lunch!"

Conscience - "Hey! Why did you lie in seminary?!"

Sean - "Hmm. I wonder. You think that if I TOLD him that an unbearably annoying conscience has been harassing me for the last twenty four hours that he would believe me?"

Conscience - "You believe in me though"

Suddenly Sean's heart starts beating REALLY fast. He has an idea that just might get rid of the conscience. Sean is taken back to the scene of the test:

Sean - 'Man! This test is so hard! I cannot believe it! AAAGGGHHHH!!! I know I have never cheated on a test before, but I need to get good grades'

Sean thinks something else, which he believes may have made the conscience enter his mind

Sean - 'Hopefully some conscience won't start reprimanding me, that would suck. Oh well."

Sean's thoughts are returned to his present time, walking down from seminary. He remembers, 'Hopefully some conscience won't start reprimanding me! Hopefully some conscience won't start reprimanding me!'

Sean realizes at this time, that he deep down believed in a conscience, even though he was somewhat joking with himself.

Sean has an idea that just might get rid of the conscience. He decides that he will not believe.

Conscience - "Sean! I don't like that look in your eye! Are you about to do something you will later regret?"

Sean - "You know pal, come to think of it… I DON'T EVEN BELIEVE IN YOU!! I DON'T BELIEVE IN YOU! YOU AREN'T REAL! I WAS IMAGINING IT THE WHOLE TIME! THE WHOLE TIME!"

Two seconds later, there was silence. Sean's heart was beating, not certain the silence would last. Sean's mind was totally focussed on thinking about his fake experience, his imagination. Sean did not let any thoughts of any reality enter his mind.

It has been fifteen seconds, and Sean's mind was engrossed in focussing only on the fantasy he had experienced. 'My thoughts these days, they are something else. I mean, come on. A conscience? A REAL conscience? No way!'

Thirty seconds had passed, and Sean would not let go of his focus. He had not heard anything, but he was so focused on his 'fantasy', he could not think anything else.

Sean sat under a tree on his way down from seminary, and would not lose his focus for at least two more minutes. He was determined to shake this off, without thinking about it. He consistently thought to himself, 'I just had the strangest dream! It was so fake, you wouldn't believe it. I woke up, and I laughed, because it is so fake, it is unreal, and there is NO WAY that anything like that would ever happen like that in real life. Why, the chances of pigs flying and money growing on trees are more likely to happen than a conscience manipulating somebody's mind'.

Five minutes have passed, and Sean has not heard any voices in his head. Of course, he did not think about that because his mind was still fully engaged.

One minute later, and six minutes after his idea, Sean thought to himself. 'Why am I even thinking about this! This is ridiculous! It's almost as if I actually think it might be able to happen! Get serious!'

The rest of the day, Sean had to try really hard to not let any tinge of his trauma enter his mind, and focus fully on everything he looked at, and did. It was extremely hard, but after more days had passed, it was getting easier to keep his mind distant from the trauma.

One month later, after successfully keeping his mind off of it, and convincing himself that the conscience was his wild imagination, he believed it was the truth. He had no shadow of a doubt that it was either an awful dream, or very vivid daydream. He also knew for a fact that there was no such thing as a conscience suddenly manipulating human minds.

To this day, Sean knows 100%, that no such thing is possible, and he laughs whenever he thinks about such a thing.

To reader - Do you have the same problem? Does an annoying voice in your head endlessly talk in your head. NEVER FEAR!! All you have got to do is the following three steps:

1. Painfully focus your mind on how you do not believe that a conscience manipulated your mind. You must focus harder than you have ever focussed in your life. DO NOT allow the slightest tinge of anything else to enter your mind. Yes it is extremely difficult, but it is possible, don't worry. (Keep doing this until you ask yourself, 'Why am I even thinking about this. This is inane!') (Time may vary)

2. Shift your full focus on your daily activities. For example, DO NOT allow your mind to wander. This takes a lot of focus, and thinking. Remember, this will not be easy! (Continue this step until it becomes natural, and you no longer have to struggle to keep mind in place)

3.  Once you have mastered steps one and two, you must laugh at yourself. Laugh at yourself for dreaming about such trauma. Know 100% that such a thing is not possible, not now, or in 10000 years. Know 100% that the odds of a conscience indiscriminately manipulating human minds is less likely than pigs arbitrarily flying. THEY CANNOT AND WILL NEVER, EVER HAPPEN!!

If you still continue to have a problem, then you may need to contact a local psychiatrist, no offense.