What is?

by Darkswirl

Rating: everyone
Tags: Sad
Length: 232

Trixie contemplates.

What is the meaning to our existence? Why are we here? This simple question has led a great many seekers of knowledge down it's dark path, but none have come back with an answer.

But I think I've finally found it…

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2012-12-02 07:05:13 UTC

And What Isn't?

Inspired by an internet "fight".

Do you ever wonder why we're here?  What events transpired, whether planned or accidental, that led to our existence?

If the former, why were we created?  What purpose do we serve being here and simply living?  What is our goal, what do we do?

If it is the former, why do we do what we do?  What are we all searching for?

I've asked myself why we're here for years, but I've never been able to come up with an answer that satisfies everything for me.

It was a few months after Nightmare Moon had returned, been defeated, and Princess Luna took the throne beside her elder sister.  I was lugging my cart along a road just outside the Everfree Forest towards a town called Ponyville when that haunting question invaded my mind once more.

It had been playing tag with me my entire life, except I was never fast enough to tag it back and it simply taunted me by tagging me again and again before leaping just out of my reach.

I am a showmare, and it is how I have made my living.  I show off my incredible talents as a unicorn and dazzle the crowds with light tricks and other doings, but in reality that's just it.

I'm not 'Great and Powerful'.  Every show needs something catchy to draw ponies in, and my title was it.