Mac lived a reclusive life.

In Mac's early years of life, his father died, leaving him with his mother, who could hardly handle taking care of Mac and his brother by herself. Mac grew up feeling alone and distant from the world around him. Nobody had time to give Mac any attention.

I'm so sad...

Mac had a miserable adolescence. He was neglected, bullied, and had a bad habit of picking fights he could never win. 

After high school, Mac went on to amount to nothing. He worked part time at a record store, which was only accustomed to a customer or two per day, and found home in a shabby apartment barely big enough for one person.

During work one day, Mac decided to listen to his favorite record, Led Zeppelin IV. As ¨Going to California¨ rang through the air, Mac reflected on his life as it is. He thought himself to be a failure but quickly accepted it as the thought was hurting his ego. He decided his biggest problem, however, was not putting himself forward. Just as he verbalized this thought, a truck drove by the big window up front, on its side displaying, ¨Fate.¨

I'm nothing. I'm pathetic. Worst of all, it's my fault.

Mac suddenly felt compelled to follow the truck. He took it as a sign of fate itself. Without his coat, Mac ran into the cold, snowy, winter outside, chasing after the truck. A few blocks down from the record store, Mac nearly caught up with the truck only to get sidetracked by an old bully. Mac peered through the window of a Chinese takeout joint, watching his old bully, who was smiling at a woman, seemingly his wife.

FATE

Mac felt outraged at the sight of his bully´s happiness. He stormed into the takeout joint with the intention to fight, only to be quickly shut down by the sight of a child. His bully was now a father.

While Mac had been mulling over the possibilities of his own life, in the past four years that Mac had been working at the record store, somebody as dull and crude as his ex-bully was able to change for the better, and find happiness.

THIS IS PATHETIC!!!!