This week partner up is with an amazing writer @zeleiracordero. She's written an amazing beginning hoping that I'll do justice to its ending. I strongly hope that my part meets her expectation.

The beginning - Time loop

The old photos made him aware of his age, how much time had passed and the solitary life he had to live only interesting for a scientist, researcher of quantum physics.

Life and the stovetop knew that it had not given up, because each restart of the time loop gave way to a Christmas with freshly baked cookies, the dinner, and enough magic to revive the family reunion.

It seemed like a dream he had just woken up from, or a nightmare lived as a drip of pre-set time, repeated incessantly. Every Christmas he has them and every Christmas she loses them. This time he would change history, he would change the routine, he would not live the repeated moment when he lost his family for not seeing the signs of an imminent collapse of the quantum state.

This would be one more but at the same time a new one. This time I wouldn't play the macabre game, this year I would face it. He was old, he would no longer participate in that annual holographic meeting, that time loop he failed to solve despite his attempts.

(End of five minutes)
"Tomorrow is Christmas, but I won't cook. This time I won't turn on the stovetop that seems to be the click that summons them every year, and I'll see what happens."
by @zeleiracordero

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The Ending - My Part!

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[I'll see if there truly are some things beyond our control, or beyond our very reach even though away by arms length.]

Thoughts flowing through vast in his intergalactic mind is more than capable of rendering his soul fatigued and unanimously perturbed.

Why the same madness over and over?

Maybe things will be different this time. No! Things are going to be different this time, and he won't allow anyone or anything to distract him from his resolve.

Then it struck.

Even Einstein didn't have it all. He was perhaps the greatest physicist of all time and he lived a solitary life. A price for greatness, huh?

What if this time loop is just meant to offset and keep him off balance? What if his family are nothing but distractions? I mean...is there anything wrong in distancing himself from them? After all, there's always this madness "Christmas" that has always succeeded in bringing them together every year. Shouldn't he be grateful and not try to fix the loop that perhaps is a blessing in disguise?

Maybe this is me on the path of greatness, like Albert Einstein, like Sir. Isaac Newton like...

But...

This is more madness. Can't I have it all? I have to do what other great minds are not capable of.

His thoughts were now more centric than ever on what his legacy will be- will it be his family or research? or both?

Options available to him has always succeeded in bringing frustration as a way of tormenting his genius brain.

How do I break free from this loop truly and yet have it all?

Yeah! Tomorrow is Christmas, and he's strictly bent on following through with his resolve not to cook, and not to turn on the stovetop that seems to be the click that summons the same loop every year.

Christmas came and he failed again, not in his resolve per say but habit just doesn't totally change overnight. Though he was able to stop the loop to an extent and now all he's left with is a minutiae. Though he still plays the macabre game and still participated in the annual holographic meeting, but he believed all that could be stopped in the subsequent years and he soon will have it all.

He made a clatter with his teeth, he's assured himself once again that soon the madness that comes with the time loop will be cured once and for all, and he knew just how to do that.

He knew he had to be disciplined enough to make that happen.

The end!