I Decided To Run

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.