http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/short-monologue-inspired-by-group-story-in-other-thread Just another bbPress community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 22:08:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/short-monologue-inspired-by-group-story-in-other-thread#post-53828 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:17:59 +0000 LilyG 53828@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ exactly &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/short-monologue-inspired-by-group-story-in-other-thread#post-53519 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:47:58 +0000 Anonymous 53519@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Brilliant - just eat that one peanut that we might choke on, but might not. <br /> <br /> C &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/short-monologue-inspired-by-group-story-in-other-thread#post-50546 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:20:08 +0000 LilyG 50546@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ With the vision of a hundred years before me, I might have mounted the peak of Everest in all its glory, bathed in the sapphire crystal of the Bermuda waves, savoured the dark chocolate of a Belgium waffle, served on a train to Prague in the middle of winter.<br /> <br /> I could have been somebody’s lover, somebody’s heartbreak. I might have planned a murder, been a mother, lost a child, freed a slave, sat upon the knee of a handsome prince and been offered all the tea in the Himalayan’s, only to say- 'I’m sorry, your breath is outrageously bad, I think I’ll go and be a pop star now.' <br /> <br /> Life is cruel and you can’t have everything you want. Everyone always tells you to accept reality. Money makes the world go round; we all want to drive a Porsche; a peanut can kill you in forty-five seconds. But what if that was a lie? What if the whole world could be flipped on its head, and we could survive without cars, without iPods, without camera phones, without having to keep buying stuff upon stuff upon stuff, without having to keep destroying everything?<br /> <br /> What if all you had to do, to find out everything was bullshit, was to simply laugh at it all, not take all this shit so seriously? <br /> What if all you had to do was just…stop..? <br /> What if all you had to do was eat one…just one, peanut?