faced with the impossibility of leading multiple parallel nonintersecting lives, is there a logical and/or moral obligation to lead none at all? if you can’t settle (and by settle i don’t mean accept second best, i mean accept necessarily imperfect, incomplete, non-encompassing of the entire spectrum of your dreams and desires, pastpresentandfuture) and choose one life, do you get none?
can’t one be all things, and to all people, all of the time?
the illustrious K. once said to me, in his icy bitter new york matteroffact way, that one can’t do all things in one’s lifetime.
i’m not sure yet. but i can state for the record that i seem to be trying, and rather unsatisfactorily at that.
