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- >Sitting on your couch; you quietly pluck the strings of your guitar in a somber melody.
- >Your eyes don't really look at anything in particular; they simply point at the ceiling in a glazed stare as the song goes on.
- >Each lamenting note is a reflection of your mood; more than that, of your very soul.
- >The music drifts from your open window and into the air; becoming quieter and quieter until it dies out in silent obscurity.
- >It's just for you; noone else would be able to hear it from how softly you play.
- >For this is a dirge of still living death.
- >A requiem for your life that never really began.
- >It would be possible to play louder, faster; let the notes ring out with a vibrancy and passion that lies long forgotten.
- >And yet even if it took a little longer; they would still disappear into the sweeping wind above.
- >Even if someone did care to listen to the weeping harmonies that you've weaved with the utmost care; the very efforts of your life; they would still simply walk on as soon as the sound stopped.
- >To be forgotten with the rising sun of the next day.
- >You used to have dreams and aspirations of being something great; something people would remember.
- >Throwing yourself into your craft; you wholeheartedly pursued these dreams.
- >But that's all they ever were.
- >Doomed to amount to nothing in the face of that ever growing world that seemed to spin too fast for you to ever catch up with.
- >Just another face in the crowd; lost in the surge of life, as the pulsing rhythm of the earth went on without you.
- >And then you came to Equestria.
- >A new beginning; a chance to start fresh in a place that seemed to move slowly enough that you could keep pace.
- >You thought it would be easier here.
- >That your differences would help you to shine as brightly as you did in your minds eye so long ago.
- >Nothing changed.
- >You weren't the rising star you hoped to be; just a dull glow in the face of this new worlds brightness.
- >The days drift by in a flash of bright pastel colors and cute squeaky voices; just as quickly as they did before.
- >Pones accepted you with open arms to join their herd as one of their own.
- >But nothing ever changed; you still amounted to nothing more than another passing face in the crowd.
- >The question of the meaning of life had long gone ignored in your youth.
- >Your attitude of living for the present would cast aside the philosophies of people who were your better by far, almost mockingly.
- >What did it matter what conclusion they came to?
- >Why did they bother questioning it in the first place?
- >They were gone now, probably never got the answer they were seeking; so what's the point in asking?
- >As the years went on; you found the reason, as the question became more prominent in your mind.
- >What's the meaning of a life in the endless stream of time?
- >When your efforts will be no more remembered than the blink of an eye that you took 15 years ago, on a sunny day that you thought would last forever?
- >This questioning drew you back to an older way of thinking; live for the now.
- >But it's so much harder than when you were young.
- >Now that you're aware of your own insignificance.
- >Ending the tune with a final flourish that you know the dropping of the curtain for your own life will not be afforded; you hear the gentle clopping of hooves.
- >"T-that was beautiful, Anon..."
- >Looking to the window, you see Fluttershy hanging limply on the sill with a dreamy look on her face.
- >Her expression changes to one of shock as you beckon her over with a wave.
- >Floating into your home, she flaps over to you cautiously; as though wary of a trick.
- >Setting your guitar down, you pluck her from the air and lay her across your lap.
- >She coos a happy murmur, with a look of contentment across her features as you begin to softly stroke her mane.
- >Giving a sleepy sigh; she gazes up at you.
- >"This is n-nice... But why...? Is having somepony listen to your song your f-fetish, mister?"
- >Staring out the window as you continue to pet her; you think of those melancholic notes that were carried away into the sky, never to be heard again.
- "No... It's having someone remember my song when it's over."
- >It was just another day that faded all too quickly.
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