A Tale of a Book
A Life is similar a storybook. It is a book with no title on its cover. One day a title appears, it has the main character name on it. Slowly, writings on the blank paper starting to show up. As how a story should start, there is a prologue, chapters and an epilogue.
The prologue is a short introduction. It also contains goals and wishes of what the main character would be. It is only a half-page; so that the rest of the story will be written further in chapters. Why in chapters? Because it will be one hell of a roller-coaster ride, for readers need to take breaks in between the story.
First few chapters begin with sweet honey kind words, welcoming the main character into the world. It symbolizes the first hope and gift from Author to other characters. These chapters are full of how the main character grows and learn first few things about the world.
The later chapters describe about how the main character starting to get a grasp about the world. How the world works and what other characters are expecting from it. These chapters are about education and communication. It generally describes guiding a toddler climbing up stairs. Toddles might want to climb or might not. They might climb faster or slower than others. Those depend on the toddlers and guiders themselves. However, it is an important step. One misstep might cause different result.
Taking steps are not always followed by a sunshine happy colored day for the main character. Sometimes, it rains. Sometimes, it snows. Sometimes, it's a blazing hot summer. Sometimes, it's a lazy autumn day. But even with the crazy roller-coaster swings, the main character keeps moving forward.
In other later chapters, a naughty dark cloud visits. The dark cloud loves to trouble characters in stories. It exists solely for one purpose; to make the main character fails. At the same time, it is a challenge for the main character to conquer. The more challenges the main character conquered, the stronger it becomes. Conquering dark clouds open the mind of the main character. More options to take, more results gained. The more it learned, the more it sees the real shape of the world it lives in. However, no one said, the dark clouds easily give in. The dark clouds also learned. The dark clouds, together with other dark clouds, form a huge hurricane. Dark and strong enough to blow the main character away.
It did. The hurricane succeeds blowing the main character off the stairs. The main character falls. Fall deep enough until it sees no lights nor hear a single sound. The main character is lost. Though, it keeps looking for a way out. It keeps trying to search for a rope or a rock to climb. It found none. The main character desperately shouts but no one hear it. Decisions made but cancelled due to flickers sound and a tiny light of hope, though it keeps on flying away whenever the main character tries to catch. It continues on and on until later chapters.
The Author keeps on writing in later chapters. Writing on how the main character struggles to catch the light of hope. However, after hundreds pages, the main character stops. It is feeling tired of trying. It only stares ahead with darkness to see. Then, it starts to feel lonely. The lonely slowly turns into lost. At one point the lost turns into emptiness. The main character felt empty. Now it can no longer hears sound or sees a single light. The Author tries to bring back the main character into a path. A secret path prepared beforehand for certain emergency case. In this story, there is one thing missed, thus, the author gambles where the story will continue for the main character had defied Author.
In early chapters, the main character learned to take one decision among options. For the main character, making a decision is same as observing a scale full of options, reasons, results, in both left and right sides. In this case, no scales stand equal.
In that long emptiness, the main character thinks back about the hardships, the options, the results. In this chapter, the main character for the first time, will take a step of its own. The main character has decided to take another path. It leads to the last chapter of the book, with no epilogue. It is an instant exit door to an end for it can no longer see nor remember goals stated in the prologue.
No one knows what the author gambles. But there is one thing the main character had learned from its pathetic unfinished book. A single delayed decision can turn into bigger and deeper regrets. Those big and deep regrets will forever attach to the main character soul like a hideous scar. The unseen scar goes by a fancy name called sin. It is a permanent dark stain on white soul, in which no matter how many times it is washed, the stain will always remained. Thus, it will always remind about the huge flawed main character has.
Is the path taken correct? Sadly no one knows. Other characters can judge, but no one can tell if it is right or wrong decision. No characters exactly know for they were never on its shoes. Only the result and time can tell.