Predestination Dialogue
"If that is what it takes to make it, then I probably can't succeed in this business." he replied, confidently gazing upward with a smile of contentment wrapped tightly around his face. She started laughing at the sight of such an artificial pose. He was privy to the spurious essence of arrogance and quickly recanted.
"So do you think that you could just quit that easily? What about your duty and the attending to your responsibilities?"
"I am not so unique. A replacement could be found rather quickly. In fact: if I were to leave, my absence would not likely be noticed."
I stopped listening to the couple in the booth behind me as I resumed writing. Sitting by the roaring fire in the back of a little cafe gave me an ideal vantage point by which to observe people's interactions. I was so easily set adrift in wonder. I could wake up one morning and before my feet reach the ground, I could immediately be bothered by desire to write a"treatise on the inevitable predestination man.
"There are so many aspects of life in which man thinks himself to be 'free'. It is such foolishness and self-deception. The ones who value freedom the most among modern society are the ones who are the furthest from it! Freedom is the freedom to choose between several options, and be at liberty to either do or to refrain from doing any one of those options. In some cases, freedom would be the freedom to decline a night of revelries. Yes, that is exactly the point. Freedom is the freedom to decline where others must indulge. Those who are free to indulge, are rarely free to refrain."
"Yet there are some who are born into adversity, or others who have (in the midst of their own naïveté) made choices which resulted in their own imprisonment. Are such people ever given the a true option? I should do some writing to explore my thoughts on this subject..."
Fri Dec 21 07:43:33 -0800 2007