Saturday, November 10, 2007

Imperceptible Recurrencies

A snowflake dropping from the heavens on a gray, overcast night. Just floating, dreamily toward the earth, swaying this way and that as if changing its mind as to where it wants to fall. The earth is already covered in a thick blanket of snowflakes. Just another snowflake to join the many. As the snowflake dreamily drops it stops short of the ground, alighting softly, like a kiss on a passerby's cheek. It instantly starts melting until it seems it has integrated into this passerby's face. It is now an organism, an independant life with goals, and dreams. This person stops long enough to notice the snowflake, before walking off in a dreamy state, walking this way and that. This meandering, like the snowflake's descent, has a purpose. Perhaps this wanderer is out for a casual walk, or on the way to an important date, either way there is a purpose. At some point though, the walk will end only to join with another organism, just as the snowflake met this passerby. Conservation of Momentum. Whom will this wanderer meet with? Where will that person wander off to? Where will the snowflake's journey end? Simple questions with no known answers.

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