This small collection of stories has been gathered to read, the stories of everyday ponies– by ponies, for all those both big and small. While many believe that their everyday life is boring, or that not every pony is special, I have endeavored to collect stories and anecdotes both seemingly mundane and normal, to prove that through the passion of those whose stories are told, the right lens for viewing our life can turn that which is dull and dreary into a priceless, polished gem of a memory.
For as one who has seen the darkness that comes from bottling up your feelings and fears, I have written these compositions. With the aid of my dearest friend Twilight Sparkle (to whom many thanks are given for invaluable advice and my personal inspiration), these vignettes have been compiled so that all who may read shall hopefully find that no matter what happens and no matter how dark, or private, or seemingly worthless one’s story may seem, you have the choice to enlighten fellow ponies and maybe even save them from those tribulations which you persevered through.
In the best wishes of Myself and my friends and family, I bid thee to read with an open heart and open mind, perchance to read the laid-open lives where experience has written across ponies’ souls. Though time and fate are the ink and parchment of the soul, the hearts and minds of the ponies that led these lives were the authors—the pens who wrote their destinies. And just possibly through doing this, I shall feel repentance for what I have done, to open up my soul to you. To tell you that even when there is darkness, there must be a light to shine.
Your light.
Without further ado, please contemplate these windows into the lives of ordinary ponies to find that although you yourself might feel ordinary, to those around you, you are extraordinary.
Foreword by Princess Luna, for all those to wish to see.