The Pony Parable

     "When Stanley came to a set of two open doors, he entered the door on his left."

     Ah, finally. Choice! Stanley pondered this for about two moments, and entered the door on his right.

     "This was not the correct way to the meeting room, and Stanley knew it perfectly well. Perhaps he wanted to stop by the employee lounge first, just to admire it.

     Stanley walked through a twisting and turning hallway until he walked into a blue room, full of your usual lounge items.

     "Ah, yes. This room was truly worth admiring."

     Stanley walked out of the room into a long hallway with two open doors near the end of it.

     "But eager to get back to business,  Stanley took the first open door on his left."

Stanley ripped the door off its hinges and ran away. Stanley didn't want to listen to the voice in his head, so he walked past the door and into another room, which was a storage room.

     "Stanley was so bad at following directions it's incredible he wasn't fired years ago. Perhaps this is why everyone had left. Nobody wanted to work with such a bad person."

     Annoyed, Stanley walked up to a big yellow platform, and contemplated wether or not he should go on it and pay 1, 000 dollars. Not caring because he didn't know his current money situation, he stepped onto the platform amd it whirred to life, bringing him up.

     "Look Stanley, perhaps we've gotten off at the wrong foot here. I'm not your enemy, really, I'm not! I know investing your trust in someone else can be difficult, but the fact is that the story has been about nothing but you, all this time! There's someone you've been neglecting Stanley. Someone you've forgotten about. Please, stop trying to make every decision for yourself. Now I'm not asking for me, I'm asking for her.

     Wondering who this "her" was,  Stanley had realized that the platform had stopped working, so he stepped off.

     "This is it Stanley. Your chance to redeem yourself, to let her back into your life!

    Confused, Stanley decided to walk into the dark room ahead of him and think deeply about his life. Walking In, the door closed shut behind him, and a light loudly turned on, startling Stanley. In the middle of the room was a small table with a telephone on it, and it was ringing.

     "That's her, Stanley. You need to do this for yourself." The voice had gone from serious to dramatic in two seconds.

     Stanley didn't wamt topick up the phone, and he didn't want to hear it ring either. Stanley found the phone's power plug, and took it out of the outlet.

     "Oh nononono- did you- did you just unplug the phone? Did you really choose incorrectly? Was that even possible? Let me double check. (Papers rustling) No, it's here, clear as day. Stanley picks up the phone, finds his wife, and they pledge themselves to one another. Fade screen, roll credits. So how did you do that? Was it-"

     Suddenly, everything started flashing white. Stanley instanly started pounding on the door, trying to get it to open.

     "Oh, no what's going on now?!"

     And then everything went black.