You Spontaneously Did the Thing I Decided I Could Live Without
It happens then, on a random day long into the future, years after we first spoke of it. You do the thing I asked you to do. The one you said you could never do.
It happens then, on a random day long into the future, years after we first spoke of it. You do the thing I asked you to do. The one you said you could never do.
It would seem that I’m not the only person out there who has trouble accepting that you can do something simply because you like doing it — with no expectation of ever getting good at it. Even as I said I didn’t care if I ever got better at it, I heard from lots of folks who felt it was their duty to assure me that I would.
My imagination is really tough competition. Reality just can’t keep up.
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