The Parable of the Bee Sting
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future” -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings This is it, today is the day! I am finally going on a run again. Yeah, you can do it. I feel great! This is so exciting. Woohoo! Shoes, camelback—no you don’t need the camelback today you won’t be going far enough. Let’s see, we’ll just go 20 minutes down the road and through the park. No, let’s drive up to the trail. Yeah let’s do the trail. Less people. I hate people. I bet you could go for 30 minutes if you tried. That would be awesome. Man, it is going to be a great day. 10 minutes later. Well, this is it. This is where I am going to die. We aren’t going to make it. I don’t know how I ever got this far from home, but we're never going to see it again. Oh look! The mental hospital. I wonder how long it will take for them to find me here, lying in the du...