The first domino you choose

2025 Apr 29

Its ripples a delicious ambiguity!

 

You control the initial state

A desire hidden, a feeling expressed, an action voted, a word said.

 

And the arrow flies

The desire registers as a company, the feeling flowers into a relation, the action creates boundaries and the word becomes a gentleman’s agreement.

 

Creating ripples in time

The company is sold as per gentleman’s agreement

The relation becomes a loving family and the boundaries solidify into walls of exclusion.

 

As you look back

You grin at your recklessness, make peace with your mistakes, feel grateful for an exceptional life, and wonder could that young boy have ever known what those dominos meant.

 

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing … making the best of it. Delicious Ambiguity.”

Gilda Radner

 

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