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// My Life Is Good 
// Story: My Inner Struggle 
// by bonejar69 
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	Hi, my name is Jacob Lee.  I am a pony living in Ponyville. Now let’s just get one thing straight before I tell my story. I did not start out life as a pony. I was originally a human who decided to show off for my friends one day. You ever read a book or seen a movie where the main character buys some cursed voodoo thingy and is sent on a crazy adventure because of it? Well that’s basically what happened to me. Luckily for me, though, I was sent to a world where the general population was peace-loving, caring-for-your-neighbor type pony creatures. Unluckily for me I was turned into one of them in the process of being sent to their world. It’s not all that bad, though. I was lucky enough to meet some friendly ponies here almost as soon as I arrived. I explained my situation to them and they decided to take me to meet their leader (I wanted to make so many alien invasion jokes). After some questioning, their ruler, Princess Celestia, decided that I should be kept close by for study. She gave me a home in Ponyville which kept me close to the six ponies that had originally found me. They taught me everything that I needed to know about living in this world including the different types of ponies which are the unicorn (a pony with a horn and magic), pegasus (a pony with wings), alicorn (a pony which has both horn and wings), and earth pony (a pony with neither horn nor wings). 
I was turned into a pegasus, so now I can fly around which is pretty badass in my opinion. For a while after I had started living in Ponyville, a very smart unicorn named Twilight Sparkle studied me to see if I could be transformed back into a human or be transported back to my world. They thought to look for the object that I had foolishly picked up to see if the process could be reversed, but it seemed as though it had stayed back in my world. She tried every spell that she could on me but nothing worked. I finally asked her to stop after I had given up hope of being sent back or acquiring my previous form. My current form wasn’t so bad though, because it matched up with the way I had looked before the transformation. My fur was a pale peach color and my mane was a short and somewhat messy dirty blonde color. The only thing that really separated me from the rest of the ponies was the fact that I did not have a cutie-mark (a mark that ponies receive when they discover their special talent). All in all, it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. So I became used to my new form and my new life in Ponyville. I even got a job while living here. My job is to basically help control the weather, so I could end up kicking clouds out of the sky or arranging one hell of a thunderstorm. This world has everything I could ever dream for, minus opposable thumbs. You tend to miss having hands after a few days of picking things up with your mouth or trying to pick something up with hooves and I’ve been doing it for close to seven months now. Now enough general knowledge, let’s get to the story.
I had made a habit of waking up before everyone else so as to be ready for my weather duty as soon as I received a job. I went through my normal morning routine of dental hygiene, breakfast, and 2 running laps and 5 flying laps around my house to wake myself up completely. I was waiting patiently to be given my job for the day when I heard a knock at the door. I flew over there leisurely thinking to myself “Finally! I was starting to get seriously bored.” I opened the door to find myself looking at the egotistical, cyan pegasus.
“How ya doing, Jacob?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Pretty good. I’m actually waiting for the job of the day right now,” I responded with a smile.
“You said that way too happily. You need to do something other than work for once,” she suggested.
“Now, if I didn’t work, who would do your job for you?” I replied sarcastically.
“Hey, just because I don’t immediately do my job doesn’t mean that it won’t get done later in the day. Besides, today you don’t have to do either of our jobs. It’s a mass vacation day for every pegasus,” she said while she put her front legs up in the air in celebration.
I frowned in disappointment. I really hated not having anything to do. I had come to rely on my job to keep me pre-occupied and not going off on a thrill seeking flight. Last time that I had done that, I had ended up in the middle of the Everfree Forest with a sprained wing and was chased around by a pack of timberwolves. I shuddered at the memory and looked back towards Rainbow Dash who was giving me a weird look. “What’s that look for?” I quickly asked.
“Hmm? Oh sorry, I was imitating you and your face,” she responded in a sarcastic tone.
I shook my head and flew past her while closing my door. I landed for a second and stretched out all my legs. When I was finally satisfied I looked at Rainbow Dash, who was looking at me curiously, gave her a smirk, and then took off rapidly into the sky. As I was streaking through the sky, I gave a quick glance behind me and, to my satisfaction, found Rainbow Dash trailing behind me. At that moment, I doubled my speed and let my desire for speed take over. I kept increasing my speed while taking glances over my shoulder to see how far behind me Rainbow Dash. She was keeping up with my increasing pace and slowly catching up to me. I decided to hold nothing back and exploded with speed as I rocketed across the sky, creating a visible slipstream. The world around me blurred and the colors all meshed into one. I was flying as fast as anypony ever could hope to without losing control and I decided I wanted to go faster. I wanted to pull off a sonic boom… err rainboom like Rainbow Dash had talked about doing before. With the thought of performing a sonic rainboom fresh in my head, I felt my hunger for speed grow, but with it came a new feeling. A very unsettling feeling. I tried to push my body to go even faster, but it didn’t respond. I felt the resistance of the air as I approached rainboom speed and somewhere in my mind, I heard a voice say that I wasn’t going to be able to do it. This thought forced my hunger for speed to subside, causing me to slow down immensely. My thrill over, and the adrenaline that had accompanied it gone as well, I slowly descended back towards the ground. Rainbow Dash flew over to me with the most awe-struck face I had ever seen her with.
“You nearly did what most pegasi only dream about. You were so close to doing a sonic rainboom,” she said in an awed tone.
“What’s the big deal about nearly doing that? From what I’ve heard, you can do it any time you damn well please,” I noted.
“Yeah I can, but you aren’t me and you nearly did it,” she responded.
“Yeah well nearly isn’t doing it so you shouldn’t be praising me so much. I can’t go fast enough to actually do it nor do I feel like trying,” I said while I wiped my brow.
“You’re quitting already? That was your first try and you nearly succeeded,” she noted.
“First and last try. I’m not going to do that ever again,” I said stubbornly.
“What’s your problem? I saw the look in your eyes earlier. That was the look of a speed demon. Where did that hunger go in the past five minutes?” she questioned.
“It was never there to begin with. I was only having a bit of fun to kill time and you were only seeing what you wanted to see. That’s it, nothing more,” I nearly yelled.
She put her head down in disappointment and mumbled, “Oh, I see,” and then flew off slowly.
I was left there alone with only my thoughts and my thoughts were focused on the feeling that had accompanied my speed hunger. It was an unsettling feeling that had made flying feel uncomfortable to me like it had when I first tried flying. I decided not to dwell on it, chalking it up to just over-working my body. Once I had pushed that out of my mind, I was faced with a small dilemma. I had no idea where I was and I hadn’t looked around when I had come in for a landing. I quickly solved that problem by going back up into the air and scanning the horizon. I found Ponyville quite a ways away, so I took off quickly in its direction. Once I got to the border, I landed again and started to walk into town. I decided to grab a snack at Sugar Cube Corner and see what crazy things Pinkie Pie was up to. Just as I had opened the door, I was met with an excited yell.
“REFLEX TEST,” I heard Pinkie Pie yell as she whipped a cupcake at my head. I barely dodged it and shot an annoyed look back towards the pink mare. “I thought you might have been getting lazy on your day off, so I decided to see if it was true.”
I rubbed my temples and sighed at Pinkie Pie. “Maybe next time you can do that without wasting food, hmm?”
“Whoever said that it was going to go to waste?” Pinkie Pie said as she walked past me. She found the cupcake she had thrown at me and gobbled it up without even picking it up first.
“That’s just… ugh… no,” I said, slightly disgusted.
“What? Ten second rule. It’s ok to eat it,” she responded with a smile.