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Time and Choice

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The clock's tick-tock was circular, as was the clock. The notion of time passing, going in circles and repeating cycles, in anticipation of the event – which is bound to happen, has already happened, and is in the process of happening now.

Standing at the crossroads, there's a different nightmare at the end of every road. The nightmare is unavoidable. Even going nowhere invokes its own different kind of nightmare; an unchoice is a choice in its own right.

It was time to choose, and all the dreamer could hear was the tick-tocking of the cyclical clock – a reminder of the unrelenting, unforgiving flow of time; he could stand still forever, but time would not. This was therefore impossible.

Looking left and right, and then straight ahead – even back where he'd come from – which way would it be? He procrastinated, anticipated the unknowable, and finally while gazing up into the clouds, he came to a decision.

Life is not limited. There may well be paths ready made and laid out before us, but these paths are just a collection of footprints made by others passed. And so the dreamer created a new path, upwards, and rose up through the clouds and stars beyond.
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