What Now?
"What now?"
"What do you mean?"
"What? I mean what are we going to do now?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"....if it was obvious, I wouldn't be asking it now would I."
"Well. um. We just gotta. umm. Hide it, yeah we just gotta hide it!"
"Where are we going to hide something like this. What if someone finds it?"
"No one is going to find it if we hide it right."
"Ok, where are we going to hide it "right"? We can't hide it around here."
"Why not? There has to be a shit-ton of places to hide the box."
"If we were lead to find it in this factory, then others will sooner or later be lead here!"
"Ok, ok. Then where are we going to hide it?"
"Somewhere where we are the only two people who can find it. On one can be lead there like we were."
"Right."
"Somewhere where the box wouldn't be worth going after."
"Sounds good."
"You really aren't helping here."
"Well I don't know! Let just hide it in the trees we drove by getting here and just be done with it."
"Someone will find it if we hide it there!"
"No they won't."
"Tell me, please explain it to me. How the hell is that a good spot to hide something?"
"When we were driving here, we say those trees right."
"We sure did."
"And did we stop to look around the trees or did we pass by them because we were told to come here."
"We drove pass them."
"So... why would anyone else stop to look at the trees if they will be following the same instructions as we are."
"....... God I hate you. Ok, grab the box. We'll put it in the trunk and head over to there. I'll bring the car around."
"That's it?"
"What? What do you mean?"
"I mean aren't we going to, you know, open it."
"Are you serious? Or have you forgotten what just fucken happened."
"I know, I know, but maybe that was because we didn't open it all the way. Or maybe we were to slow. Come on don't give me that look. Don't you want to know what's inside?"
"Of course I do. It's taking every part of my willpower to not open it because I know whatever is in there is bad."
"So, we both want to open it. That is what I'm hearing right now."
"Stop! Stop! Just stop. If we open that box something bad will happen and because we opened it, that bad thing will happen to us."
"What if we get someone else to open it?"
"What?"
"Ok, just listen for a sec. What if we hide it like we planned, but we give a little hint somehow on how to find it. Then someone will find it and open it."
"Wouldn't it be easier to just bring the box to someone and have them open it or send it by mail?"
"If we do that then they will know that it was us to sent the box and ALL the blame will be put on us, you get it? It's all about liability."
".....yeah. ok, I get, but how are we going to know if someone finds it."
"I don't know, technology? There has to be something out there that can do what we want."
"Ok. Ok. Ok, this is starting to sound good. Lets do it."
"We are going to see what's inside this 'great whatzit'."
"What?"
"It's from a movie."
"What movie?"
"I'll tell you on the way there. Lets get going already."
H is for Halloween
Haunting, hollowing hoodlums scream as they swing hanging high on the Hackberry branch. Their humorless expression hidden, hooded by holey sacks. Hark, the young and old when you hear hilariously hideous hoopla as habitants imitate horrible horrors. As they honk, howl, and hiss with hunched backs, homemade haggard noses, and hallucinatory appearances. They hold tight their gained riches to add to their hoards as they hobble weakly home. I hunker deep in my house as all occurs in fright. This is why I hide away on Halloween.
10 Things I Learned
1. Travel the world before there isn't anything left to see.
2. Pursuit a life that you want for yourself, not one that is expected from you.
3. Everyone has the gift of freedom, but not everyone realizes that comes with the burden of responsibility.
4. Do good not for the sake of doing good, but because you want to.
5. Suffering sucks, learn from it and grow from it. Don't let it consume you.
6. There will always be someone better than you, strive to be better then them.
7. No one has ever had a perfect plan for life. If someone did, they would be selling it.
8. If the opportunity comes, take a philosophy class.
9. What is the point of money if you can't spend it on people you love, that includes you.
10. The path to happiness begins with begin happy with who you are.