Of all the certain things, seeing your life starting to get better, having a secured job, a fancy apartment, a love story who is starting to blossom but came to the point that the book has to end, and the sequence of the great life needs a period. How will you react?
I, being always wanting to be in control, can relate to not-so fictional Mr. Crick; felt so threatened that you’ll do anything– plead if you must just to correct things. Life is full of uncertainties and I’m not good in playing this game. I am already thinking of giving up and taking a leave of absence– leave the ties, family and friends, a secure job and responsibilities, and just disappear. This is my primary reaction to the uncertainty.
I wonder how would you respond to things that you are already certain of– a safe, certain and calculated life. And suddenly one Wednesday Morning, everything becomes uncertain, you’ve become unsure.
How will you respond when you are no longer of control? How will you respond to a life that now depends on an author who is having a writer’s block, narrating your story day-by-day, and trying to think of a plot on how’d you’ll meet your end.
Would you dive into life of an adventure? Or choose to live the life of auto-pilot?
“….Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost
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