"If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next -- if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions -- you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never dare to."
//Margaret Atwood; Der blinde Mörder (The Blind Assassin)
If I could stand at the finishing point of all things and foresee all possible endings, would I still make the same choices that I made at the beginning? Would I still have allowed myself to feel too much, talk too much, take stupid chances, fall down, pick myself up, love, hate, hurt and get hurt? Why should I say yes? Why should I want to be different from who I could be at the start, if being the same meant never having to see things that you couldn't ever see, because not seeing meant not knowing, not knowing meant not having to believe that there could be more, more than one could ever imagine.
Start, stop. Stop, start. Over and over, we begin again.
"If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next -- if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions -- you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never dare to."
//Margaret Atwood; Der blinde Mörder (The Blind Assassin)
If I could stand at the finishing point of all things and foresee all possible endings, would I still make the same choices that I made at the beginning? Would I still have allowed myself to feel too much, talk too much, take stupid chances, fall down, pick myself up, love, hate, hurt and get hurt? Why should I say yes? Why should I want to be different from who I could be at the start, if being the same meant never having to see things that you couldn't ever see, because not seeing meant not knowing, not knowing meant not having to believe that there could be more, more than one could ever imagine.
Start, stop. Stop, start. Over and over, we begin again.
