The Girl, Part 2

So, the girl left the castle and headed out into the large unknown world she had heard so much about. She really had no idea where she was going or what she was going to do now that she was gone, but she knew that she had questions that were still not answered and she wanted the answers. It was several days and then weeks and months and finally years that the girl was away from the castle. She had never really settled down anywhere but had kind of wandered from place to place, always searching for the answers to her questions. There were a few people every now and then that would give insight or help her arrive at conclusions that she felt like might be the right answers but for the most part she found that the people outside the castle were not much different from the people inside the castle. They knew very little about what the girl asked about and were only concerned with their own personal lives. They might not have been living inside a castle, but they might as well have been. Their line of sight was just as short and narrow as people in the castle. They couldn't see past the boundaries of where they lived. For the most part people were caught up in the everyday tasks and schedules that they followed and gave very little thought of anything else. There was nothing really spectacular about being on the outside; nothing extraordinarily enlightening. The girl began to remember what life was like inside the castle and what all the "outsiders" had told her about the world outside the castle. She remembered their taunts and how they ridiculed her for her lack of experience in the world. Well, now they couldn't ridicule her any longer. She had lived outside the castle, she had seen what they had seen and experienced what they had experienced, and what did she have to show for it? There was nothing so great about the world outside. There was nothing incredibly special about being outside the castle walls. She was not really any better out here than she was in the castle. Perhaps she would return and see if maybe the life there wasn't for her after all. Perhaps now that she had seen what was outside the castle and knew that the answers to her questions did not lie there that she would be content with the castle and its walls and life would begin to finally make sense. And so, the girl began to think of returning home and returning to the life she had always known. . . . . . . . . . . . .
To Be Continued