The Girl Who Changed Her Mind

There once was a girl who changed her mind a million times. From up to down and left to right. From afternoon, to morning, to night. She lit up the world with her curiosity, always wondering, questioning where she would be ten years from now. Where was she five years ago? Nobody knows. In the future they say, spending her days with the world in her arms. She would tear it a part and rebuild it again, over and over until it fit in her hands. Then she'd throw it away just to run after it, and beg it to stay while declaring "I quit!" She would wrestle and dance with her every decision, trying hard to stand out, but instead she fit in with a generation of people consumed by their choices. "To learn or to know?" "To be small or grow?" The noise overwhelmed the voices within, the ones that guided them from the beginning. Until something shifted... No one predicted the sudden stand still. Everyone said "No it won't", but it will. The world stopped its turning. There was no more rotation. The people were shocked, steadfast and waiting for doors to reopen, but instead they kept closing. Day after day, the things they had chosen became obsolete. Their feet became bare. Their hair was unwashed. There were no masks to wear and less people to talk them out of their knowing. They began growing, once more from their roots. Old things forgotten became new again. Hopes buried in doubt became true again, and the girl who constantly changed her mind sat still... for the very first time. In the quiet she was reminded of who she was, before all the choices. Before the decisions, the plans and the noise of a planet spinning out of control. She had all but one vital choice left to make: to stay in the present or let time float away. She vowed to herself right there and then "I will live in the now, instead of the when". And when the world began to turn, she never forgot the lesson she learned. For in that brief moment of pause, the people remembered the love they had lost.