2005-09-13 
 

true choice

Every once in a while, we're presented with a choice. Sometimes it's an easy one like chicken or steak?, but there are times when the quandary presented becomes much harder to solve.

The other day I overheard a conversation on Muni in which two teens were discussing which sense they'd rather lose, hearing or sight. As is natural in the confines of a Muni car, my mind started to wander and contemplate the question. Which would I rather lose? Instinctively I thought hearing would be missed less. My fear of not being able to see definitely beats out my already not so stellar sense of hearing. I'd miss music and birdsong and all the other things, but I'd miss paintings and books more.

When I stopped and rethought the question, it suddenly occurred to me that I wasn't thinking through it properly. The correct answer is that I'd rather lose neither.

The trick with choices is to always realize that there's a NONE OF THE ABOVE option. (Or, in cases of chicken or steak, an ALL OF THE ABOVE option.)

Labels: seen and heard, spirit

* posted by me at 1:01 AM

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