Long Long
ago, in the Summer of 2007 to be precise, four little mice had boarded a ship.
The docks were silent, the night was still and the moon played hide and seek
behind the clouds. The ship set sail into the unknown and before one knew, the
stars above realigned and the four little mice saw each other. Each different
from the rest but they soon realized they were all the same in being different
from the rest of the animals on the ship. But that is a story everyone knows!
The mice
charted different courses within the ship till one day one of them set sail,
then another and finally even the third. The last remaining mouse looked on as
their boats sailed further and further away.
The
airwaves carried their squeaks to him, faint and yet conveying the different
emotions that swept over them. Trepidation, anger, joy, love, hatred,
frustration, fear, ecstasy and sometimes even indifference. The world was
unforgiving, sometimes all it let the mice have were memories of a life less
complicated.
The last
mouse remains. And he hopes and prays for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to
be true. Let the mice indeed be the most intelligent species on Earth. For each
have made their choices and some day each will need to say goodbye.
