Porcupine

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Please give a round of applause to our first contestant.

*mic test 1,2,3*

*clears throat*

Here is your question. If you were given a chance to become an alien, would you take it? If not, who would you give the chance and why? Elaborate.

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*contestant overthinks*

*contestant falls asleep*
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And she fell asleep on stage. Someone please guide her to the exit.

*silence*

*man in the crowd stands up*

*goes up and smirks proudly*

*people be like:"le gasps"*

And he stared at the sleeping porcupine before him, looking at her thorns and pondering on what to do. He knew it would hurt but thought it would be worth it..

He takes a deep breath and looks at the porcupine who has helplessly fallen asleep. If he wouldn't help her up, who would? He thought.

He went closer.

*crowd gasps*

*crowd gasps harder*

*crowd inhales porcupine's thorns*

*and the man was shook*

He felt thankful to the crowd for gasping so much that they inhaled the thorns of the porcupine. He couldn't thank them enough.

Now he could just carry the porcupine.

*le tries*

*le lifts*

*le fails*

But she was too heavy. He thought. And something more powerful had to be the one to carry her back up.

He stared.

And stared.

And stared.

Until he saw a certain design on her dress that he knew would help.

He takes a deep breath and smiles.

*le clears throat*

*le shouts like mah goat*

"THerE'S BtS CoNCerT riGhT On tHe NeXt BaRanGAy!!"

Silence.

The porcupine wakes up.

The man felt accomplished.

But then the whole audience wakes up.

The whole city wakes up.

The whole country wakes up.

The whole world wakes up.

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"And it would be a really special concert!",he continues.

And everyone began to run their butts off,faster than the Usain Bolt.

The porcupine rubs her eyes and gives more than her 10099999999999% to get there right away.

"And there would be only seven seats",the man continued.

And everyone ran faster.

Faster than they have ever ran.

The porcupine still thinks she's dreaming because after all these years of being an ARMY, they are now just in the next barangay.

She has to be one of those seven.

She needs to.

She's been waiting her whole life for this moment

And she's finally here.

She arrived at the entrance, taking a glance at the colorful and glittering lights. It looks so happy there. So bright. So hopeful. She's finally here. Her whole world stops. She stares at the door, thanking and imagining herself somewhere in the future.

How would meeting them be like?

It's hard to imagine but one thing's for sure..

She's finally here.

Or so she thought.

The entrance guard throws her an apologetic look before closing the door behind her, leaving a loud bang so soft that she could even hear her heart breaking.

And at that moment she knew the reason why she missed.

She was too busy daydreaming, staring at the bright decorations at the entrance instead of running inside right away.

And she thought as she stared at the black closed door infront of her,

"They are so close and yet at the same time, so far away"

"I cannot go near. I cannot see. I cannot go"

She winces at her own drama, not strong enough to cringe at herself at the moment. She begins to tear up.

And so it's been 5 years now or maybe even more. She can no longer count the days, or the seconds, or the minutes passing by every point in her life. Time learned how to run faster. Even faster than all her efforts combined to reach that concert.

Closing her eyes, she sighs again.

And so today, she writes this for the third time. The first being in her heart and the second in her diary.

If you have a dream, stop thinking of it. Start working for it. If you want to maybe see them, don't lose hope. Study well, work your head off every night, hoping that one day, after finishing all these hardwork, you can finally go wherever you want and fulfill that dream of yours. I know you will. Not like me.

Same goes for other inspirations. Just don't forget your goal, your reason why you keep going. Don't mind them if they say bad things about you for having that inspiration coz' different things drive us.

And whatever that thing is, I wish you all the best.

Coz' after years of trying to understand why I missed?

I found that the problem was me.

I was a porcupine.

I was not human.

And pretty much I tell you, I would get annoyed at humans complaining how they are imperfect and how life hates them, coz' the truth? They have more hope than I do.

They have the power to make themselves better, to control, to rise up from every fail. They could speak and they have people to understand them when they have worries.

Please know how lucky you are.

Learn to love who you are.

You are not just human. Because a human? Is one of the most beautiful creations in the world. And you are one of them.

Be happy.

I want you to be happy. Live the life that I,an animal,could not have. Can you imagine? We get hunted everyday, killed everyday, and unsheltered everyday. So don't waste your life. Love yourself.

Make the most of everything coz' you are more than just a human. You have hope and faith and love--I guess that's all you need to achieve whatever dreams you have.

                                                           

                                                                       -Sincerely, Porcupine💜