[ WP ] At age 18 you are required to go to city hall and have someone read you through a choose your own adventure style book of your life while you make the choices . The choices are permanent and will determine your life . You are the clerk reading the books .

I do n't know why I chose this profession, I do n't see why kids are forced to make these choices so early on. The toughest part of the job is hat you have to remember you made choices too, and today I would have to watch one come to fruition. 
 
 The kid walked in, he was as nervous as they come. He sat down across the table from me, and I introduce myself. Hello, Michael, I am John, I'll be entering your life choices today. He muttered something that I could n't hear `` I'm sorry, what was that?'' he cleared his throat and said 
 
 `` I was just wondering how long this would take?'' 
 
 `` That depends on you I suppose.'' 
 `` Let's begin. You are invited to a party by your friend Arthur, do you go?'' 
 
 `` I never really liked parties but, I think it's time or a change, yes.'' for the first time he seemed at least semi confident. 
 
 `` While there you meet the girl of your dreams, do you ask her out?'' I asked him. 
 
 `` Of course I do, what have I got to lose if she is the love of my life!'' 
 
 `` She says no, causing you to drink, a lot. You decide it would be best to go home to calm down, you get in a car accident two weeks from now, killing yourself and a 10 year old child.'' 
 
 `` Sir?'' he asked 
 
 `` Yes?'' I replied 
 
 `` I noticed something, you did n't take your hand off the page.'' I knew what I had done, I made that choice 15 years ago, and I knew I did it for the right reason. 
 `` That nullifies that decision, does it not? It's like chess I think, the move does not count if you're unsure, and you were definitely unsure.'' I'm glad he noticed, I made the choice to give him a chance to control his own life in his own way, not in a way that a book tells him. 
 
 I took out my book of matches and gambled the child's life on a choice I made 15 years ago, and burned his Life Book. He looked alarmed, and then confused when nothing happened to him. `` You are the first to become what we call `` decision free'' you can make all your decisions in real time, and our life is as they say, a blank slate.''
