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Thursday, July 28, 2005
Zero-Zero Vision
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posted: July 28, 2005, 12:01 PM
by: Rebecca Sunnybrook
This happens every year about this time. And every year about this time, when it happens, you say to yourself, "yeah, but this happens every year about this time, and obviously it never goes anywhere 'cause here we are a year later and we're still where we were then."

But somehow you know that this year it'll be different and this year it'll happen just the way you're envisioning it now. But then of course, you realize that EVERY year you think, "yeah but this year is gonna be different, this year it's really gonna fly, really gonna just play out the way I'm seeing it now." But it never does, so why should you expect it to now. Which is ALSO what you think each year at just this exact same point in the train of logic.

But, given that, why not just NOT think it this time, and break the pattern? Why not NOT think that it's not gonna play out as expected this time because it never has before?

Well, for one thing, you can't just NOT think it this time because you already HAVE thought it this time. But for another thing you can't just NOT think it this time because, if you DON'T think that things are not gonna happen and then they DO because you didn't, then next year at this time you won't be able to have the same feeling you've had in all these previous years -- and then you might never have this exalted feeling of something possibly soon actually maybe really happening, EVER AGAIN.

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