h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is a transition time for me. Somewhere between being a student, and being a professional, I drift like an electron, in clouds of potentiality.

I am engaged, but not married. I am working, but have turned in my resignation. I have an apartment, which I am moving out of. I have a destination, which I have not yet reached.

Jumping now, as I have so many, times before, without a net, I find myself unafraid. Unlike the cinema, life has a way of not resolving itself into nice patterns of closure. In life, there is no cause and effect. It's comforting in a way, because without causation, life can be lived in the now, and the then, and the maybe all at once. And that's not so scary.

You see, I'm not afraid of what will happen to me tomorrow, because I see no reason to fear what happened to me yesterday. The future changes inexorably into the past, and if the past is not to be feared, then why fear the future. That would be like not eating a hamburger because you know that it will soon be excrement.

I'm not sure why...but that's how I feel anyway.

Here's to God and his wacky creation. The paradox of order within chaos, and chaos in the midst of February 29th.