Friday, 30 October 2009

Aftertaste

[ST (Jan 10, 2006)]
At some point it seems that, out of the blue, everything starts to gain significance and become relevant, especially if you want it to be so, significant and relevant. Surely there's a way to tell right from wrong, important from superficial, useful from otiose, sound from fishy, weak, unnecessary, questionable. I never can't tell, though, despite the years that accumulate in a past that once I began to build without much of a concern. Still, it seems the right attitude to me, giving concern not much of a prominence as your living unfolds, not making it control your everyday short-term responses. But concern lives in the aftermath of now, it shines fully in the afterglow of events which once seemed ineffectual, trivial, harmless, only to become the opposite of those. Every decision is bound to bring along a bittersweet aftertaste, a scent of doubt and hesitation up your nostrils.

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