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Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that, in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
Like soundless waves from an undersea earthquake, my sleepiness gave my boat a long, slow rocking.
Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn’t explain and I didn’t ask. Married life is weird, I felt.
As they sat and talked, however, a tiny, tiny sliver of doubt took root in their hearts: Was it really all right for one’s dreams to come true so easily?
‘No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That’s all.’
Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.’
