a story for bored people at work or people who are just bored in general

Once there was a little girl.  The little girl lived inside an older girl.  The little girl enjoyed adventure but the older girl had an office job, so the little girl didn’t see much adventure.  The little girl would often look outside the office window and dream about a yacht race or a sky-diving adventure.  The older girl would just sit and do typing and filing.
 

Every morning the older girl would get dressed and put on high heels.  The little girl didn’t like wearing heels, she preferred flip flops.  The older girl would put on makeup and blow-dry her hair into a straight and neat style.  The little girl wanted to let her natural curls bounce wherever they wanted.  She didn’t enjoy combing her hair.  

Every day the older girl sat in her office on the 37^th floor overlooking the city, the ocean and the mountain.  The older girl didn’t see the view because she sat behind a machine and peered at a screen while pressing a board of buttons. 

The little girl looked out the window and imagined that she could fly high above the city and have conversations with the birds.  She wanted to live in a tree and move to where it’s summer every six months.  The older girl typed letters and made telephone calls. 

The little girl wanted to float in the sky and sit on the white bouncy clouds.  The little girl knew the view up there would be great.  The older girl organised her paper clips and put staples in her stapler. 

The little girl would often ask the older girl why she had an office job.  The older girl would simply reply that it paid the bills.  The little girl wondered why the older girl needed so many bills. 

The little girl often got bored at the office and wanted to organise chair racing competitions.  The little girl thought that employees could be more efficient if they were on roller blades.  The older girl punched holes in papers and put them in a file in a cupboard. 

Often the little girl would wonder if she’ll ever have an adventure.  This made her sad.  The older girl sharpened her pencil and made photocopies and wrote on sticky notes. 

Sometimes the older girl wondered about the little girl and hated to see her sad.  She knew that an office job wasn’t very exciting, but it paid her bills at the end of the month.  The older girl felt sorry for the little girl and wished she could make at least one adventure come true. 

The older girl didn’t know what else she could do that would pay all her bills.  She hoped that one day she wouldn’t have to spend the whole day behind the machine in the office while the sun outside was shining and the clouds looked so bouncy. 

The older girl secretly wanted to have an adventure too, but how would she pay her bills if she didn’t have an office job? 

One day the little girl looked particularly sad.  The sun was shining extra brightly and the clouds were extra bouncy, the sky was a deep blue and the birds were extra chirpy.  Obediently the little girl went with the older girl to the grey concrete slabs of the office building. 

The older girl couldn’t stand to see the little girl so downcast.  She would find a way to make things better. 

The older girl was very good at pressing the buttons on the machine in her office and pressed letters in the following sequence: “g”, “o”, “o”, “g”, “l” and “e”.  She continued to type more and more words and clicked on all of them. 

The little girl stared intently out the window. 

The older girl finally looked satisfied and powered down her machine.  She filled in one more form and took it to the corner office.

The next morning when the little girl woke up, the older girl was already busy getting dressed.  But the little girl got confused because instead of the high heels, the older girl was wearing flip flops.  The older girl’s hair was loose and her natural curls bounced off her shoulders.  Instead of a suit, the older girl was wearing a summer dress and sunglasses. For the first time the older girl actually didn’t look old at all.  She looked about the same age as the little girl. 

The older and little girl got into the car and drove to the foot of the mountain.  The older and little girl started climbing the mountain until they got to the top.  The top of the mountain was much higher than the 37^th floor of the office building.  From there they could see much more of the city and the ocean and the surrounding area. 

The older girl met a team of people on top of the mountain.  The team helped the older girl to strap into a device with big wings.  The older girl ran a short distance and then jumped off the mountain.  The little girl could hardly believe it – she was flying!

They flew around the mountain and across the city, past the grey walls of the office building and past the busy morning rush hour traffic and over the mountain again, past the beach and over the ocean.  They flew higher and higher and higher until they were flying with the birds.  The birds asked them where they were going.  The older girl asked the little girl where she would like to go.  The little girl said she wanted to go to the end of the world where heaven begins.  The birds said no worries. 

The little girl and the older girl flew with the birds higher into the deep blue sky until they got to the bouncy clouds.  The clouds smelled like marshmellows and were indeed very bouncy. 

The little girl and the older girl bounced from cloud to cloud higher and higher.  They flew and bounced and flew and bounced and laughed and laughed and were nearer and nearer to the end of the world where heaven begins.  The birds said they have to turn around but will give directions for the last bit to the end of the world where heaven begins.  The little girl and the older girl thanked the birds and wished them well.  The birds turned around and left the older and little girl to find their way to the end of the world where heaven begins. 

The older and little girl flew and flew, higher and higher, further and further.  Finally they got to the end of the world where heaven begins.  The entrance to heaven was an invisible zip in the sky.  The only way you could see the zip was if you were at the end of the world where heaven begins. 

They started pulling on the zip and slowly the sky parted from one end to another to reveal heaven in all its glory.  As far as the zip was opening, it was also closing behind it.  The unknown colours and textures of heaven’s majestic creatures licked the sky through the open zip as they were zipping past.  Lightning and thunder flashed across the heavens in a glorious roar.

Finally the little girl and the older girl slipped into heaven.  At last, the older girl and the little girl agreed, our adventure begins... 

Back at home, a traffic cop wrote a parking ticket and stuck it on the window of the older girl’s car at the foot of the mountain.  The cop was whistling a tune of a song he wrote himself about a rat that fell in love with a fish and in a moment of passion by accident bit the fish to death and then drowned. 

The End.