ENJOY!!!!

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When it fell down I wondered why it must be this way. I questioned the clouds, the sky, the sun, but I didn’t receive an answer. Many laughed at my confused mind saying ‘it’s silly to wonder such things.’

But I really wanted to know. So I sat down in the rich green meadow and looked around and up at the shining stars where answers have once been found.

“Will you tell me or is your silence caused because it is a secret? Life is a secret isn’t it?” I asked.

“That’s up to you.”

“Is it possible to find all of the answers here on this planet?”

“Yes.”

“Then why has no-one figured it out?”

“Some have, but they aren’t allowed to know… to tell.”

“Why not?”

“It would make one different. That is against the rules.”

“Different… What’s that?”

“Anybody… anything that is not similar to something else.”

“Similar? How can something not be similar? Everything is the same here.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes. Nothing is ever wrong where I’m from.”

“Being different is wrong, yet it shouldn’t be.”

“Why do you use that word? It doesn’t exist!”

“It may not be said on this world, but it does.”

“Are… Are you different?”

“Yes. I’m not like you, am I?”

“No. Can I be different?”

“That is your choice.”

“It sounds good. How can I be, then?”

“Be who you want to be, no matter who says you can’t.”

“Ok. If I’m different, can I have fun?”

“Of course. Now, you were asking about finding answers.”

“Have I asked for too many?”

“There are never too many answers to be given.”

“That’s good. So, the people who have found answers, they can’t tell anyone?”

“No.”

“What if they tell someone accidentally?”

“They won’t.”

“How do you know?”

“We take them away before they can.”

“Where do they go?”

“To a special place. Somewhere they can enjoy knowing life’s secrets.”

“So it is a secret!”

“Only to those who don’t know it.”

“Will you tell me then?”

“No.”

“But you said that there are never too many answers to be given!”

“Yes, but some answers you must find yourself. If you want to go to the special place, you must figure out the answer to the question you seek out on your own.”

“That’s not fair!”

“Life isn’t fair.”

“Is that a secret?”

“No.”

“Do you live in the special place?”

“Yes.”

“Will I see you there?”

“If you succeed in answering your own question.”

“How long do I have.”

There is no limit in time…”

“Goodbye then.”

“Only for now, my friend.”

I let it leave, whatever it was, as I stared at the fallen object in my hand. Why, I thought, why did you fall?

“I’m hear…”

“I know you are, but why did you fall? For me or for you? There is an answer.”

“Is that what you really want answered?”

“What else is there, that I do want to know?” No one spoke, because no one was there.

I looked at the object for the third time and I realized the ‘why’ I had asked. It had fallen because it did. Not for anyone or for itself. Just…because. It was meant to fall and it had. There truly is no reason then. Does that mean, I live because I do. Just to be? To have been?

“Yes.”

“Can I come to the ‘place’ then?”

“Come…”

I stood up and walked over to a small doorway in the earth. For the first time it opened up and I saw a silver shine at the bottom… or the top. There were no questions at the end, only answers and the freedom to be whatever I wanted.

I glanced one last time at ‘the fallen’ in my hand. No more will I ask or wonder about it. Slowly it rolled off my palm and landed on a blade of grass in the rich green meadow. It. The only one that had fallen tonight. I let the thought escape me as excitement took over its place and left to find what was beyond the shimmering mist at the end of the staircase.

After the door closed, silence took over the night since noise is always different; making it impossible. Only the stars shown through, countering the blackness. Ever so hesitantly, ‘the fallen’ reflected a single moonbeam from the sky, and smoothly swept down onto the dry earth. The soil shifted pleasantly as it allowed the single droplet of rainwater soak into its baked skin.

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I guess it’s one of those read-between-the-lines stories. Hope you liked it. Don’t flame if you didn’t.

~Luna~