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What if We Believed Our Choices Actually Mattered?

Elizabeth Harper

    Cancel plans. Change your mind. Backtrack. Deny. Don’t let yourself be pinned down. Hold on to the only freedom you can imagine at this juncture. Hell is a future plan realized with your name on it, typed on it like the label on a manila file folder in a locked file cabinet you can’t break into without being caught and having the FBI all over your ass.

    You’ve been running away for so long it feels like standing still, or fighting being sucked down with the swirling water in the dirty toilet bowl of your life as someone viciously keeps pushing down the handle. And you’re gasping for breath and you’re doggy paddling and begging for mercy or just a fair break or a moment to catch your breath.

    There’s no clear vantage point. No way to analyze all the data, foresee all the consequences, evaluate the ramifications, warn those who will be left to clean up the mess, or you hope, if all goes well, live in the shiny palace of a world that is better because of something you had the foresight to do, or a bet you had the good luck to make, as you gambled as if life depended on it, because it did.

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