Walk Hand In Hand example essay topic
Completely alone, I look down as the people live their lives. They know that I am thinking, though they don't realize I'm wishing that I could be involved. I dream of the day when I can step down off of my platform and join in the everyday lives of these people, and maybe walk hand-in-hand with someone through the picturesque garden. I envy the French couple that walks past me everyday. I've watched them grow, from children chasing each other around me, to adults, with their sons chasing each other. I want this.
Why can't I have it? Ah, yes, because my creator made me, instead of their creator. I was molded by the hand of Rodin, not the hand of God, and because of this, I am doomed to this lonely state, watching life but not living. Frozen and unchanging, I don't react. The rain and snow fall on my head, and still I sit here, thinking, contemplating something that no one will ever know. Perhaps one day I will be moved into a museum, and maybe these gardens will not always be here, but I will always be.
Even long after the couple has died, and their children, and their children's children, I will still be frozen in thought, changeless for centuries. As everything around me changes, I never do, and this is the worst kind of loneliness. I wish to be free to wander, to live, to breathe... to do anything other than what I am forced to do for all eternity: think. In this way, thinking, but not alive, I am doomed to dream of a life I will never live, a hope I can never make a reality.
I watch people live and think of how badly I would love to be like them, able to change, able to define their own destiny. Yet my destiny has already been defined by my creator. This is so unfair. I want to be human! I long for life and freedom and love and power... all my days I have longed for this, but now, sitting in the middle of this garden in a city, full of life and known for how it inspires love...
Dreaming of a life I've never had and a love I never will have, simply hoping that eternity will not last too long..