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| An opinion or two...or three or four... |
PROMPT July 20th In 1969, Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon. Afterward, people commonly complained, “If they can put a man on the moon, why can’t they ______.” How would you finish that statement today? Collin sat reading his diary. No one knew Collin kept a diary and he liked to keep it that way. Collin did, in fact, have a plethora of diaries that he'd been keeping since he was a wee mite and able to write. And because Collin was now...ahem...Collin really didn't want anyone to know his exact age; especially since Collin himself couldn't quite tell. Oh he guessed he was some...ahem again...let's just say Collin had several centuries' worth of diaries, one for every decade. Suffice it to say, Collin had a LOT of diaries. And every decade or so he'd take a day off from his tricking and trapping and spend time with his diaries as he walked down memory lane. He stirred the tea sitting by his side and sipped a small sip as he studied each page. He was gladly reading the pages of the 1960's...yes, it was truly a decade that changed his world. Drugs, Woodstock, The Summer of Love. All of it radical and all of it fun. Well, most of the time. Collin didn't actually do drugs and he'd never been to Woodstock. But The Summer of Love? Well, that brought a salty little tear to his eye. It was another summer that his precious Colleen rejected his heart. But no matter. Something bigger and better happened that year. A human went to the moon. The moon of all places! It was an event for the decade and the century by far. It was amazing, exciting, and scary all at the same time. It was an event that certainly made one hold his breath. In all of Collin's...ahem...years on this earth, a man on the moon was by far, the most incredible event he'd ever witnessed. It was the best and most advanced occurrence he'd had the good fortune to experience. But...wait a minute...Collin's brain was now thinking...and Collin's brain thought some disturbing dark thoughts... If the humans could send another human to the moon, then why: 1. Why couldn't they just fall for his tricks? 2. Why couldn't they get snared in his traps? 3. Why couldn't they just share their tea an their cream and those little cubes of sugar? And most important of all...why...oh why didn't Colleen love him in return? There's where Collin stopped, his heart a little sad. It was Colleen again. And it would always be Colleen. For eternity. And that made Collin think one more time. If they could put a man on the moon why couldn't they find the one little thing that would make Colleen's heart beat for him? Hmmm? Why couldn't they do that? |
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