[ WP ] After many years , you 've returned to the Wizard . `` I 've changed my mind , '' you say . `` I do n't want to be human anymore . Can you change me back ? ''

The man walked the long brickroad alone. His heart was heavy and his steps were slow. It would be obvious to anyone passing that this was not a happy man. As it was, there was no one around to see. Shortly before the city he turned of the shining road and headed into the forest. 
 
 The man walked with slow and heavy steps, his feet dragging a little with every step, and his head hung down with his eyes firmly on the road. He was a angular built man, with silver hair and a handsome chiseled cheek, and an with intensely sad eyes. 
 
 The man reached a black brick tower and knocked on the door twice. Not many knew of this black brick tower in the middle of the deep green forest, and no one knew of the old and gnarley wizard who lived within. That was, no one except the man by the door. 
 
 The old wizard opened the door and stared down the sad man. `` What?!'' He barked. The wizard was in no mood for visitors this day. 
 
 `` I've changed my mind.'' The sad man said, his voice was soft and solemn. `` I do n't want to be human anymore. Can you change me back?'' He asked, looking up with a glint of hope in his eyes. 
 
 `` Why would I help you? You yourself begged me to make you human. You begged me to give you a heart. Why do you return now and expect me turn you back?!'' The old wizard sneered. The wizard had lived for many centuries and had long since lost patience for the workings of the human world. The folly of men and the foolishness of others held no interest to him. 
 
 The sad man fell to his knees and he looked up at the wizard with a pleading gaze. 
 
 `` Please! I did not understand what I was asking for. I did not understand what it meant to be human. I did not know a heart could break and that such pain was possible. I beg of you, great wizard! My love and bride to be, Dorothy has been torn away from me! Death has claimed my love and now my heart is broken! I beg of you, please end this pain! Please turn me back into what I was, so I may escape this dreadful faith!'' The man begged in such a feeble and pained voice that even the old wizard gave pause. 
 
 Although it was long since the old wizard had last cared of the folly of men, he did remember what had been, and watching the poor man beg on his knees stirred a sense of sympathy and compassion. 
 
 `` You would have me turn you back into a creature of metal, cold and calculation without a heart, without emotion, fear or pain?'' The old wizard asked. The folly of men indeed. To give themselves so fully to their passions. 
 
 `` Yes!'' The sad man begged. 
 
 `` You would have me take not only your pain, but also your joy? You would lose all love for her, as well? Do you wish to let go of the love as well? For only without that love can you stop feeling the pain?'' The wizard asked. 
 
 The sad man hesitated for a heartbeat before he lowered his head. `` Yes.'' He whispered. For the mans pain was too great. The world was nothing without her. Not even his love for her mattered now that she was gone. 
 
 `` Hmm...'' The gnarly old wizard thought for several moments. The folly of men, dictated by emotion, not logic. This foolish impulse would pass, as did all things humans, but the folly of men also meant the sad man would never listen to anyone else. He would only listen to his own heart. `` I am busy now. However, if you are still here in seven days then I will turn you back into a creature of tin and metal.'' The old wizard said and slammed the door shut. 
 
 The sad man shuffled over to a stump and sat down on it. His sorrow was great and his heart broken into a hundred pieces. So he sat and waited. 
 
 The sad man knew that seven days would pass and so would his pain. 
 
 The wizard knew the sad man would learn to live with his pain and forced the man to wait and think. 
 
 And seven days later, the sun rose to reveal that one of them had been wrong.
