Journey of a Piece of Paper (Pt. 1)

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18 Aug 2024


Dear Diary, Today
I felt a bit sick in the stomach, there was a horrible, bright lightning storm and I slowly toppled right off my stump, it came with a horrendous ripping feeling that felt like it lasted for ages. Now I sit on the soft dirt of The Amazon Rainforest.

19 Aug 2024


Still lying on the ground. A beaver's curiosity took the better of it. It nibbled away at my toes, taking thin, slender logs out of my base, and scurrying away to its dam somewhere. Oh did I mention that it hurt, a lot.

21 Aug 2024


A lumberjack found me lying on the ground, it was very awkward for me, since I'm a tree and cannot speak. I was trying to say that there was a squirrel family that had made a humongous mansion inside of me, but he just carried on and heaved me into the back of a truck.

23 Aug 2024


The lumberjack drove me and some other logs to a gigantic, silver building that I'd never seen the likes of before. I was awake the whole journey feeling sorry for the family of squirrels living inside of me.

They drove right into the building and carelessly unloaded all of the other logs, one by one and then finally me. I was dropped onto a big wooden crate onto the others. I'll miss that crate, he was nice.

24 Aug 2024


Today the people hastily loaded me into a debarker. I heard a click and I started to rotate, the top had a pointy bit (like a giant vegetable peeler) that ripped off my skin, yeowch. Feeling quite embarrassed (I'm naked you'd be embarrassed to) they yanked me out of the machine.

Next they put me in a shredder. It put a burning sensation throughout my body, it was like being in a bushfire but without the burns. When I came out of the weird machine I felt extremely goopy.

25 Aug 2024


Tonight, I got to sleep on a cold wireframe bed, it wasn't very comfortable but considering all the things I had gone through it was "beddy" enough to get a nice sleep.

When I woke up I felt really refreshed but I also felt as hard as a rock. They lifted me off my makeshift bed like I was a plank, I mean I sort of am, but that isn't the point. They squished me into two giant rollers that were going at supersonic speed. Directly after squeezing me in I bolted through them getting flattened. When I came out I felt dry and thin, but still quite rough.

26 Aug 2024


I got placed on a glowing red metal plate today, it was burning hot, like a bushfire but with the burns (heat burn, not charcoal burns). As I got lowered onto the plate I heard a lot of sizzling. I looked and saw hot bubbles of sizzling water. It made me feel smooth.

They left me on the hotplate for several minutes. Soon after the heat turned off. A giant metal cutter fell down on me splitting me into neat sections. A wall squished me together into a neat stack of paper.

27 Aug 2024


I got packaged into a neat little package of paper. I got loaded into the back of a truck with some other paper packages. Remember crate, yeah I had a neat little chat with him on every step of the way.

I got loaded onto a shelf in a supermarket. What an awesome place to take a nap. I thought. I woke up getting written on by a very sharp pencil.

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