I don't know where to start. In fact, I rarely know where to start in the majority of my endeavours. Stories, projects, task lists... I may know where the start is, but how do I start it?
Usually it's just a matter of sublime inspiration.
While procrastinating the start of this blog, I went to update my Blogger profile. I filled out the typical fields, stating my name and occupation and biography. But then, at the end, I came across a most unusual question:
"How is an ankle unlike a consequence?"
I found this seemingly random comparison delightful, and hasted to answer the question in an equally quirky fashion. But as I started to mull my answers, I became more and more critical of the question. Eventually, I answered by writing this:
One cannot leave their ankles behind as they walk away.
How enlightened of me, no? And then I started thinking again. Can I actually walk away from my consequences? Is that not a negative image, promoting irresponsibility? Maybe.
I'm happy to walk off with both ankles and my consequences behind me. Who's to say I haven't met those consequences already, and am now venturing past them? This is becoming much too philosophical for my tastes.
So I open up the question to you: How is an ankle unlike a consequence?
But can we, really, leave both ankles and consequences behind us?
ReplyDeleteI’m reminded of the cautionary ‘What goes around, comes around’.
Well. Y’see. World’s round. Okay, roundish: kinda squashed at the poles.
I’ve just got this…feeling, y’know?
Perhaps inevitably our ankles might catch up with those consequences we hoped left behind.
Nice start, Jack :D
can we hope that, in your analogy, the consequences decide to take chase sometime after we leave with our ankles, but moving always at the same speed we are? please please please? i'd very much like to leave them behind, hahah.
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