Metamorphosis: Nothingness

When Ryan Krattiger woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a photon. Soon after though he was no longer in bed but out the window, unable to stop but incapable to go faster while traveling at the speed of light. Within the first few moments of being awakened, he had seen most of the country that he had never known to exist, having only ever been exposed to the darkened halls of his torturous high school. Now leaving the village limits, he was beginning to come around to what was going on, "where the heck am I?!?". Alarmed by his proximity to the world Ryan had no idea what to think. Then the idea rolled itself into his mind...or what was his mind. He was a photon. But how could this be? Photons were massless particles of light, simple collections of pure energy. Wait this is amazing, pure energy; never losing, never gaining, just traveling at the speed of light from one one of the universe to the other. "But wait, what about my family? My job? My dog, oh not my dog I can't think of not having my dog!" Ryan, now exasperated in his moment of realization loses focus and suddenly plummets into the burning layers of the sun. At this point there is nothing left to say, photons are never "lost" but it seems that I have lost this photon in the vast sea of photons of the sun, never to be distinguished again. A loss of another little fragment of light, left to go infinitely through space, flying at the speed limit of the universe, never slowing never stopping, only going