Shapeshifting

fig. 1
circle

It’s a simple problem, really—all you need to do is visualize it.

fig. 2
cone

Either you want to keep it, or you don’t.

fig. 3
cylinder

But what if it’s too late and you have to keep it?

fig. 4
regular tetrahedron

Or what if you do want to keep it, but you still end up losing it?

fig. 5
square-based pyramid

Will you even be able to live with yourself knowing that, at one point, you didn’t want to keep it?

fig. 6
cube

What about if you do want to keep it now, but then you discover later on that you don’t want it?

fig. 7
pentagonal prism

Or, worse yet, if it doesn’t want you?

fig. 8
regular octahedron

Is it even capable of knowing that you exist yet?

fig. 9
elongated square pyramid

Does it even know that it exists?

fig. 10
augmented tridiminshed icosahedron

And how do you plan on telling them about it?

fig. 11
augmented hexagonal prism

Will they be angry with you if you choose to keep it?

fig. 12
regular dodecahedron

Will they still look after you if you don’t?

fig. 13
gyroelongated square pyramid

Can you afford for this to happen?

fig. 14
cuboctahedron

How is it going to work?

fig. 15
elongated pentagonal bipyramid

Will it hurt?

fig. 16
pentagonal bipyramid

How much is it going to hurt?

fig. 17
triaugmented hexagonal prism

Are you willing to go through that kind of pain for it?

fig. 18
quadaugmented cube

Are you willing to make sacrifices for it?

fig. 19
heptadecagonal prism

Are you willing to let it take things from you that you’ll never get back?

fig. 20
regular icosahedron

And if not, will there be a chance to have another one?

pl. 1
sphere

Or is this it? (see fig. 1)