thinking about choice as a generality while really interesting is nearly meaningless: in the broader sense, no matter what choice you make or not, you go on and everything goes on around you even if you don’t go on. brilliant ‘comic’: specific but allegorical.
It’s like Neil Peart wrote. “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” Even if you spare both keys, in order to keep them both alive, then you’re condemning them to a pointless existence where they can open no locks. And are you really sparing both keys for their own wellbeing, or for your fear of making the wrong decision?
Dismemberment Plan – Come Home
“Called my dad to check in and to maybe find some common sense…more or less
He says common sense is such a scam, and I’m like ‘Dad, what do you mean?, oh’
He says you’re either wrong or right and life will go on either way, whatever
you chose”
I feel other commenters have missed a core element to your image here.
Both keys are potentially valuable, but one must be irreparably hurt in order to free another.
Or else perhaps both must stay locked together forever, in an embrace that perhaps neither of them would truly want.
And of course, we’re probably talking about people here…
If it was a DnD game, I’d be doing research on all the locks and doors nearby ;)
But life itself is almost never that simple.
I have broken the key but may never know where the other door might have led. This life I have chosen, dare I hope it will be a good one?
Contemplated this before a major life decision. Thank you for the beautiful, if sad, thought. Your words are forever more than they seem, growing as I do.
even not choosing is a choice.
This is my favorite piece so far.
You can tell by the fact I’m not even trying to add anything… Too stunned.
thinking about choice as a generality while really interesting is nearly meaningless: in the broader sense, no matter what choice you make or not, you go on and everything goes on around you even if you don’t go on. brilliant ‘comic’: specific but allegorical.
It’s like Neil Peart wrote. “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” Even if you spare both keys, in order to keep them both alive, then you’re condemning them to a pointless existence where they can open no locks. And are you really sparing both keys for their own wellbeing, or for your fear of making the wrong decision?
Dismemberment Plan – Come Home
“Called my dad to check in and to maybe find some common sense…more or less
He says common sense is such a scam, and I’m like ‘Dad, what do you mean?, oh’
He says you’re either wrong or right and life will go on either way, whatever
you chose”
i like that, dtbr…. is that truly what your dad said, or is that a quote from a song?
i see that its from a song. i should have googled first. asked questions later
I feel other commenters have missed a core element to your image here.
Both keys are potentially valuable, but one must be irreparably hurt in order to free another.
Or else perhaps both must stay locked together forever, in an embrace that perhaps neither of them would truly want.
And of course, we’re probably talking about people here…
If it was a DnD game, I’d be doing research on all the locks and doors nearby ;)
But life itself is almost never that simple.
I’m in this exact situation.. I’m choosing to break so they can be free :(.
However.. I hear they have superglue now :)
I have broken the key but may never know where the other door might have led. This life I have chosen, dare I hope it will be a good one?
Contemplated this before a major life decision. Thank you for the beautiful, if sad, thought. Your words are forever more than they seem, growing as I do.