Reloaded....In A CentOS Console

Hello World....is there anybody out there?

This is my message in a bottle.  I believe that I may have fallen down the rabbit hole. I am writing in hope of contacting the outside world after becoming trapped in a CentOS console for the past 17 days.

I have recently become embroiled in the murky underworld of Linux.  Bewitched by this alternative OS I believe that I may have got in over my head.  My arrogance and ego got the better of me.  I have become intoxicated by the power flowing via the conduit of my fingertips.  Through conversing with the mysterious deity that the worshippers of this Unix-like cult call 'The CLI.'

Quickly tiring of simple incantations such is ls, mkdir and touch, I decided to step things up and attempt to perform some advanced conjuration, summoning The CLI without the protection of the one that they call the GNOME.

'The GNOME...'

Without a second thought or a moment of hesitation I spoke the following words via my keyboard:

'systemctl set-default multi-user.target'

'reboot'

Before I knew it, I was gone.  I was lost.  Sucked into the black hole to another dimension.  This was a world without my protector.  My guide.  My saviour.  This was a world without GNOME.

This realm was bleak.  Empty.  Black.  Blacker than the deepest, loneliest depths of space.  I was alone and missing my journal with the words that I needed to speak in order to summon back the GNOME.

I spent days using all that I have learned to find a way home.  Feeling despair I was about to give up when I stumbled unto a gateway upon using a magical combination.  

Ctrl + Alt + F2 

With a flicker I was transported into yet another dimensional plane, part of a collection of lands known as the Virtual Consoles.  This new realm was similar to the last but different all the same.  I started to feel empowered and that perhaps I didn't need to have the GNOME watching over me.  

I had hope.  

Could it be that if I kept leaping from console to console, striving to put right what once went wrong, that maybe, just maybe my next leap could be the leap home?

'To be continued....'