Have you ever had the peculiar sensation of having your hands tied?It chafes, very much, at first. Then you realize the peculiar release of responsibility that it involves, and in some ways it is very freeing. If everything goes to pot around you, you can’t be blamed for it. And that is a surprisingly potent source of satisfaction. Especially when you watch your captors muddle and crash. In fact you have a front-row seat.
If you keep saying yes to everything, soon they will ask you for the thing that destroys them. And then, with the same strange smile you’ve hosted for the last hundred answers, you can say again, with a exultant lift of your heart into your throat, for this is the moment of your vindication, and you only hope they realize it in the moment before they blindingly implode…
“Yes.”
Then you can go to work on your bonds.
(first published on 7.23.07, 6.39am)
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