What page to choose?

So, I was bored last week at home. I don't really know many people around Franklin anymore, and theres only so much job searching/chatting on the internet. So, I started looking through my old desk. I found a book that I got for my birthday back in 5th grade. I wouldn't have remembered that, but it was the only book of its kind I ever got. It was a Choose Your Own Adventure Book. I always hated them, but someone who came to my birthday party didn't catch that. So, I had this book. I was bored. What the hell...

So I'm reading along and I get to this page: To walk up to the front door of the scary abandoned house and ring the bell, turn to page 52. To turn around and go back down the stairs and not disturb the inhabitants of the big scary abandoned house, turn to page 111.

Erring on the side of caution, I decided to pick page 111. Being my luck, Page 111 read something like. Oh no, one of the boards on the stairs of the big scary house broke and you fell to your death...

Dammit, they let little kids read this stuff...

So, being the grown-up that I am, I cheated. I went back to the previous page and rang the bell. Page 52 was something like: Oh, this isn't an abandoned house, it belongs to Mrs. Hickerbottom who has just invited you in for some fresh homemade cookies, to accept turn to page 93. To be polite and exit to continue your quest to find the golden notebook (or whatever it was) turn to page 111.

Now, you're thinking, we already know 111 has death on it, why would he pick that? Well. I did. I wasn't paying real close attention to page numbers, and I didn't want any cookies anyway.

Of course, I died, falling down the stairs again. It seemed a bit more painful this time. And appropriate.

You see, it didn't really matter what I chose. Even if i had eaten the cookies, I probably woudl have left the house on page 111 again and fell to my death, never finding the golden fruitcake or notebook or whatever it was.

Cookies or not, our fate might just be sealed on page 111. We choose to indulge, be bold, or back out, and we still fall down the god damned stairs.

So... We go back to page 1 and start again....

Happy new year :)