Sunday, July 29, 2007

Yes/No, Up/Down, East/West

.... it's all the same direction.

"What shall I do?" she asked.

"Do? Do what?"

"Exactly!" she said emphatically, "What shall I do with the rest of my life?"

"Why, do what ever you like."

She scrunched up her face in that thinking way. "But what if I don't know what I like?"

"Then just do the opposite of what you don't like."

"Will that make me happy?" she asked wistfully.

"Happy? Perhaps. Content? Maybe. Does it matter? Isn't it enough just to be?"

"Just to be?" She thought about that for a moment. "Nothing more, nothing less? Just be me?"

"No. Just be."




Francesca Rauchi's Confusion courtesy of the artist.

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