Everyone Is Stanley (No One Is Stanley)

I leaned against the wall and closed my eyes. The music played around. I didn’t see anything, didn’t feel, didn’t think, didn’t even try to think or understand anything… This music just played, pouring out of the elevator’s shiny walls like if it were a waterfall. Its melody grasped my mind, wrapped around it tightly. It always sounds the same. It will never change and it will never end. It keeps circling, just like this whole game. That’s why it’s all meaningless from the beginning… isn’t it? I can’t even hear the Narrator’s voice anymore, so I can’t tell for sure if I am annoyed by this or not. Seconds ticking away, days passing by…  Sometimes it seems to me that he sings cheerfully. But most of the time I hear him calling me, murmuring about something, humming under his breath, following the rhythms. I listen and don’t listen to the music. I got bored sitting here, I got sick of hearing the same things over and over again, I am so bored and I am getting drowsy now, despite all this noise. I have no idea how much of time flew away, it seems like it had been forever, but I stay in the elevator, the one that always moves to somewhere and at the same time stays motionless. I already slipped down the wall and now I just sit on the ground. I am still waiting for something. Maybe for the Narrator’s new comments? Or just for my own death? Under this music, in this very elevator, in two steps away from another fake ending underneath the Boss’ office… “Stanley! Get out of there! Stanley-!” Finally, I hear the Narrator’s muffled screams. But I am not going to leave the elevator now. I’ll just sit in here and enjoy this damned music. And I am ready to do it forever. I am tired and I don’t want to restart everything again. I don’t want to go to all these stupid doors. I won’t follow the yellow Line™, nor I will pick up the phone. I will never push buttons again, not even the harmless ones. I never even liked my job. And it’s easy to understand me here, because, actually… Stanley is not my name and I never worked in this Office.