A Third Possibility

 

There can’t simply be just good and evil.  There should be a third thing, a third choice.  There are many things we choose, but some are simply thrust upon us.  Some, we don’t get to pick, they just happen.

It can’t be good or bad, that is too close to being the same as good and evil.  And it isn’t sweet or sour, healthy or sick.  I’m talking about something all together different.  Something that’s been standing out in left field the entire time and yet has gone unnoticed.  We see it, but for some reason it doesn’t register. 

It’s not smart or stupid, democrat or republican, and it isn’t a choice between this or that.  It is a third item and we’re always failing to select it.  It is neither forward nor back, it is neutral. Yes, that’s it.  It is our ability to not choose.  To not play the game.  I select nothing.  Deal with it. 

It is what we end up with, no matter what we gather along the way.  Houses, cars, planes, toys, vacation slides, or pieces of art.  It all gets left behind, while we head off to our next adventure.  I simply choose to step completely off of the playing field.  Not out of apathy or fear, and not out of any kind of failure.  I simply choose to not play.

 

 

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