Advice – What to choose?
The choice to be made was nigh on impossible to make. Should she or shouldn’t she?
Clara was sitting at home when the phone rang. The person on the other end sounded very familiar, but Clara just couldn’t place it. The voice was calm in her demeanor yet somewhat forceful in what she had to say.
“You have two choices, and you must choose one now!”
Clara responded, “What do you mean? And who are you to make such a demand?
“Now is not the time to discuss that,” was the immediate reaction, “you have a choice to make, my…your life may depend on it. It is irrelevant who I am.”
This did not make any sense to Clara. What could possibly be so important that she had to make this decision now?
“Listen carefully, for I will only say this once,” the voice said, “There will be a knock at your door in exactly…seven minutes. Do not under any circumstance answer that knock or open that door. Ignore it.”
“Why? Who is it going to be?” Clara asked.
“It’s not important,” the voice said. “No matter who it is or who it looks like, do not answer the door!”
This was very perplexing to Clara. She needed more information. “I need to know why,” she shouted in frustration.
“I can’t tell you. It disrupts the …” There was a pause, and then Clara heard the word “continuum.”
“What? I didn’t get one of your words.”
“There are some things that we’re not permitted to say,” was the quick answer. “Suffice it to say Time, and I repeat Time, is of the essence. Do not answer the door. Lives depend on it, particularly yours.”
The phone line clicked at that point, and a dial tone returned.
Clara did not understand what was happening. It was then that there was a knock at the door.
She got up slowly and moved toward the door. Looking through a side window, she saw who was standing outside the door. It was a mirror image of herself, dressed exactly as Clara was today. It was then that she remembered the voice she had heard on the phone and recognized it—it was her own voice.
The choice to be made was nigh on impossible to make. Should she or shouldn’t she?
