I Decided To Run
By Sean Tindell
I decided to run, I don’t know why, but I did. I ran and ran
for what felt like forever. Then I hit a wall. I fell. It hurt, but I got back
up and looked at the wall. It looked impossibly tall, but it was there and
telling me to climb. So without hesitation I began to climb, and climb, and
climb. Higher and higher until my hands hurt and I felt I couldn’t climb
anymore, I couldn’t see the top and the ground seemed so far away but something
inside me told me to keep climbing. So I did I kept climbing, I was so tired
and in pain my hands would barely grip the wall, and many times my hand seemed
to slip and I would nearly fall but I kept going and going and going. I don’t
know how I had made it that far or how I was even pushing through the pain I
only knew if I didn’t keep climbing I would fall and fall into what seemed like
a bottomless world of clouds. Finally so very tired and wondering if there even
was a world above me I saw it upon the horizon of my site behind the red glow
of the brilliant sunset. Tears began to fall from my eyes and I began to climb.
Almost to the top …….I slipped…….and began to fall…..I don’t know how far I
fell I just know I fell and landed on a ledge. I still couldn’t see the bottom
and could no longer see the top. Lying beaten and bruised I wondered and was
sad for a short time but now I knew
there was a top a place at the end a place to go and a new journey to go to. Once
I remembered that I stood up and began climbing again, faster, harder, and with
more vigor for I knew the path I had climbed it before. I found myself
wondering if it was as hard as I was think before or if I just knew where I was
going but before too long I saw the top again, I wanted to know what was there
if there was just another side to the wall if there was something on top or if
it was just a wall and if so what was it keeping there I had to know. I reach
the top of the wall and I looked all around, saw many things felt as though I
could truly do anything and for the first time I knew I was finally free.
*one day I will create a nice animated short for this. Until then I hope you enjoy this story.
