Out of a lifetime of time

You have discovered what appears to be an ordinary room. But as soon as you enter the room, time stops for you. When you leave the room, time picks up right where you left off. What do you use this room for?

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So what did you do?

Nothing. Went there on days when I was running late and homework was due soon. It actually improved the way I think about time, which is the opposite of what you'd expect. If I have to use the room, I'm losing my real life hours you know compared to others, it's like a dream but an expensive one. Say you're lazy with a homework, and don't complete it. Your teacher asks for it and you say you don't have it. And they say okay I'll give you unlimited time to do it, but the time you take to finish this homework I'll take off from your lifespan! That's a crazy deal right?! Like sure Stats sucks, but I don't want to be losing hours and days off of the end of my life just because I hate it so much. I'd much rather just work on it like everyone else is, and submit a crappy version. I'll fail or whatever, worse case scenario but that's not the end of the world, I can work harder next time and improve. It's about improving! And the room is about cheating, it was insane, it was such a dangerous tool thank god someone told me about similar concepts and I could figure it out.

Yeah wow good for you. Did anyone else know about it or was it just you?

Yeahhh, haha there's... a few other people knew about it, from previous years, and my year too. It was. It was a little depressing really, I don't know if you want to hear their story but hollywood could make a solid horror movie out of it and people would dismiss it as being too ridiculous and scary haha.

Yeah? Wow could you give me the shortened version?

Okay sure let me know if you're feeling uncomfortable because I don't want to bore you or scare you with the details but basically bad things could happen if you were not careful with how you'd be using it. So there was this guy in our year...not too bright but not too stupid either... he didn't study very hard for the exams and he did alright. Anyway he finds out about the place and he's over the moon right because he can think of all the wild things he could do in there. He sets up a tv with a cd player don't ask me how I saw it, the couch was very uncomfortable, and a video game console too. He would spend hours and hours in there watching porn and jerking off until he felt like a ragdool, all weak and confused. When he hung out with us -- and we didn't know that's what he was upto because we'd have helped him obviously -- he was always tired and low on energy. We thought maybe he was into drugs or something but he was not in the right company for that, you know. And the worse he got, it became harder to manage for him, so he would retreat into the room more often. His assignments would be done, and everything would be fine...like he wasn't a total disappearance, but he looked tired and spent... And confused dazed. He had huge dark circles around his eyes. His hair became messy and uncontrolled, they had to talk to his parents about it, he left for his home for a couple of weeks.

OH? what happened? Was he okay later?

Yeahhh, he was okay later, he's doing alright right now, has a wife and everything. He's not doing too bad. He's traumatized from those days though. So we find out later that in our last two years of high-school he spent a total of three years in there all by himself. Three freakin' years, all alone, playing video games and sleeping and jerking off and what not it was wild. So he's now three years older than we are biologically. We felt real bad about it. He was the one who told the school about the room actually, he considered it a curse on people with low self-control, the people who should least use it are the folks who'd use it the most you know. So they boarded it up and everything now nobody talks about it anymore. It's wild though. You should hear stories from him, when he gets real drunk and talks about his time in the room it feels like he went through a war, he's truly traumatized. It must have been worse than the worse prison sentence, the hardest part would have been knowing you can get out and accept reality at any point but you don't want to because you've discovered a cheat a hack and you want to keep using it because it gives you an edge over everyone else. You know. Shit.