Friday, December 25, 2009

Life As We Know It

is changing

and fast!
one of these days, we are all going to

fall

right
off

the
edge

of
the

world


Oh?
What's that you say?
The world doesn't have an edge?

PREPOSTEROUS!
Crazy! Loony! NUTSO! Positively senseless!
You young people.... next you'll be telling me that our world is round, like a ball.
Hmmm?
What's that?
Oh, the earth is round like a ball now, it is?
I thought so.
I'm telepathic you see.
Next, you'll be telling me that the universe doesn't revolve around our planet, and that my great, great grandfather was a monkey.

RIDICULOUS!

What are you people thinking?

I like my world. It's tangible. It's close, like the burrow of a mouse. My life is comfortable, I like things the way they are.



WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?


Who in God's name gave you the right to tell me who I should be? The right to tell me how to live my life? The right to take away my comforting, perfect reality? I'm not having it, I tell you, I'm not having any of it.