Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Unknowable Certainties

Sometimes, you're going about your life, minding your own business, when suddenly you remember something unfathomable: "I will die someday."  This knowledge briefly collapses your sense of reality and certainty in anything. 

I live in New York. 

Most people, it seems, do not abruptly change the course of their entire lives on a whim. 

"Take risks," he says to me, about the way I eat. 
"I do," I say.  "I make big ones.  I'm with you, aren't I?"
"I'm a risk?"
"You were.  I don't think that now, but yeah, you were a huge risk."

Not liking rye bread feels like a small thing in the face of trusting someone when experience tells me not to. 

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