The Newspaper Story II

Imagine you are a roll of newspaper, packed snugly amongst your fellow friends inside the postman's duffel bag just after having been churned and rolled around on the press moments earlier along with everyone else. You sit comfortably in the bag, with the occasional bumpety bump of the postman's bike going along the pebbly road. Things are good, you are a bit squashed but so is everyone else, it's okay, everyone is on the same boat. Suddenly, you feel yourself elevated above all your friends, you want to go back where it was all comfortable. But then you feel a jerk and become propelled forward.

Thump. You've land on someone's porch in the most ungraceful style but it's okay, after blinking twice, you are still alive. You watch as the postman rides away, a place you'll never be again. As you think to yourself silently, a dog gives you a slobbery lick and just as he was about to take you inside the house, decides to detour in the last moment and gives you a few shakes as he gallops towards the gate, shaking you and tugging you as he heads towards a park. The dog is excited to have something new to play with and tosses and tumbles you until he sights a bird no far away from you and runs off to chase it, leaving you tattered on the grass.

Ah...still again. You feel slightly battered but most of you is still in tact. You bask in the serenity of the speckled light produced by the tree canopy above you. It's good to feel relaxed finally. Even though you are in a new place and don't know anything else about it, at least it was better than being tugged around on the porch by that crazy dog! You fall asleep amidst the faraway laughter of playing children and the gentle breeze. You fall into a deep sleep so deep in fact that you feel lifted up into the skies, flying high, high up into the sky...CRASH. You wake up with a slight shock and quickly open your eyes. When you open your eyes, you see that parts of you are being disassembled by a small quiet child. She pulls you apart gingerly and then starts to create folds. She is folding paper planes. Then she starts folding other things: cranes, cats, boats and more! Soon, other children come joining in! In a matter of minutes, you have gone from a simple newspaper into an origami wonderland. You have never seen so many people happy, and this makes you happy too.