A short story I just wrote...
Today, I was walking in a straight line, oblivious to all motions, sound, and smellI guess you can say I was a little spaced out on what I was doing. Carefully placing one foot in front of the other, making sure it was on the line and straight. A few mishaps of course would occursuch as a curbor a sudden halt of the colored linewhich would later resume a few feet later. I continued this useless escapade for a few minutes when a boy stood in the way. I asked the young man if he would please step from away. He said to me Why are you walking this line mister? To tell you the truthI really had no idea why I was walking that lineof course I felt smarter than the boy and said Shouldnt you be with your mother or something? The boy looked at the line, then at me and said Siryouve got a problem. He skipped away laughing. I shrugged it off and told myself what the hell do kids knowhell forget this ever happened in 10 minutes anywayIve always had a belief that children have almost a 10 minute attention span, and can only remember the very important details of life. I continued to walk the line when a man my age stopped me. I swear it was de-ja-vu or somethinghe looked as though he were the same young man. Had I been walking? Is this some kind of hallucination I am having? Excuse me sir. I couldnt help watching you walk that there line. Why are you doing this sir? Im not trying to be intrusive on you or anythingI just wanted to know what would take a man like you to want to walk this line? God what the hell is the matter with everyone? Cant a man just walk a freakin line whenever he wants? Well I have no reasonI guess Im trying to cut a few years of my lifeI just wanted to feel young again by doing something without reasonnow if youd excuse me- Well Sir, Im sure your capabilities and skills could be used right now for something other thanwasting time. Well I think you should be doing those things instead of wasting time with me! I walked around the insensitive bastard and continued my mission. I didnt know the whole world would be against meits not as if Im going do this forever. Its like a hobby I guessmillions of people do hobbies there whole life. I continued and got on a rollwalking at least 500 steps, crossing over 30 cracks, crossing the path of a cream-colored cat, and killing 4 beatles in the processBefore yet another block prevented me from continuing. An old manwhich not so surprisingly reminded me of the two persons that came before himattempting to end the one good thing in my life! Excuse mestop what youre doingplease I couldnt fucking believe it! Am I committing a crime! Is there a law against walking a line as long as I want! I had to keep every ounce of anger and frustration from blowing up on the man. Listen old manI have my reasons for walking this lineit seems that everyone wants to stop meI feel like I cant be satisfied until Im bored of walking this line! Well young manI can tell you right nowthe line will end soonand you will have nothing to doa feeling of emptiness will consume youwhy do you want to feel that? Im sorry old manI dont believe that the line will end soonI have to keep walking this lineyou dont understand! I will give you one more chance to stop walking this lineand just go home. He got off of the lineand looked at me with tears in his eyes. I really had no idea that an endeavor so meaningless would become such an act of annoyance. I waited for a secondso as not to make the old man feel as though he was in vainI continued my walk. Every following day I slowed my walkeventually feeling every bone in my body achingvery painful this walk had become. It became very hard to breathheavy gasping for air became the only means of survival.
How long have I been walking? I feel so old and useless to my quest. I wont be able to finish this line. I feel death nearer and nearer as I walk. I have gotten nothing accomplished in life. This line has become my lifeand along with my lifeboth have become the two things I despise the most. I realizemy conscience has tried several times to stop me from continuing thisbut was shot down.
Waitthe lineit has expiredAnd so have I.
Today, I was walking in a straight line, oblivious to all motions, sound, and smellI guess you can say I was a little spaced out on what I was doing. Carefully placing one foot in front of the other, making sure it was on the line and straight. A few mishaps of course would occursuch as a curbor a sudden halt of the colored linewhich would later resume a few feet later. I continued this useless escapade for a few minutes when a boy stood in the way. I asked the young man if he would please step from away. He said to me Why are you walking this line mister? To tell you the truthI really had no idea why I was walking that lineof course I felt smarter than the boy and said Shouldnt you be with your mother or something? The boy looked at the line, then at me and said Siryouve got a problem. He skipped away laughing. I shrugged it off and told myself what the hell do kids knowhell forget this ever happened in 10 minutes anywayIve always had a belief that children have almost a 10 minute attention span, and can only remember the very important details of life. I continued to walk the line when a man my age stopped me. I swear it was de-ja-vu or somethinghe looked as though he were the same young man. Had I been walking? Is this some kind of hallucination I am having? Excuse me sir. I couldnt help watching you walk that there line. Why are you doing this sir? Im not trying to be intrusive on you or anythingI just wanted to know what would take a man like you to want to walk this line? God what the hell is the matter with everyone? Cant a man just walk a freakin line whenever he wants? Well I have no reasonI guess Im trying to cut a few years of my lifeI just wanted to feel young again by doing something without reasonnow if youd excuse me- Well Sir, Im sure your capabilities and skills could be used right now for something other thanwasting time. Well I think you should be doing those things instead of wasting time with me! I walked around the insensitive bastard and continued my mission. I didnt know the whole world would be against meits not as if Im going do this forever. Its like a hobby I guessmillions of people do hobbies there whole life. I continued and got on a rollwalking at least 500 steps, crossing over 30 cracks, crossing the path of a cream-colored cat, and killing 4 beatles in the processBefore yet another block prevented me from continuing. An old manwhich not so surprisingly reminded me of the two persons that came before himattempting to end the one good thing in my life! Excuse mestop what youre doingplease I couldnt fucking believe it! Am I committing a crime! Is there a law against walking a line as long as I want! I had to keep every ounce of anger and frustration from blowing up on the man. Listen old manI have my reasons for walking this lineit seems that everyone wants to stop meI feel like I cant be satisfied until Im bored of walking this line! Well young manI can tell you right nowthe line will end soonand you will have nothing to doa feeling of emptiness will consume youwhy do you want to feel that? Im sorry old manI dont believe that the line will end soonI have to keep walking this lineyou dont understand! I will give you one more chance to stop walking this lineand just go home. He got off of the lineand looked at me with tears in his eyes. I really had no idea that an endeavor so meaningless would become such an act of annoyance. I waited for a secondso as not to make the old man feel as though he was in vainI continued my walk. Every following day I slowed my walkeventually feeling every bone in my body achingvery painful this walk had become. It became very hard to breathheavy gasping for air became the only means of survival.
How long have I been walking? I feel so old and useless to my quest. I wont be able to finish this line. I feel death nearer and nearer as I walk. I have gotten nothing accomplished in life. This line has become my lifeand along with my lifeboth have become the two things I despise the most. I realizemy conscience has tried several times to stop me from continuing thisbut was shot down.
Waitthe lineit has expiredAnd so have I.