Luke Mitchell

“The more the guests drank, the louder their chatter became. I found myself thinking about how everyone believes they are doing something in life when they are doing nothing. One thing leads to another, and one can’t ‘do’ anything about it. Yet nobody wants to give up the idea that they can ‘do’. When life’s events flow in a specific direction, you go along with it and imagine yourself to be doing something. But you aren’t. Life’s everchanging current carries you along from one situation to the next, and you react to circumstances like a ball bearing bouncing off the flippers in a psychological pinball machine. I thought about where I was sitting and how I came to be there due to my introducing Mandy into Walter’s life. I’d imagined I was doing something helpful, and now Walter was married to a woman who’d been working as a prostitute until she ran into him. I’d never imagined that would happen, but it did, and I couldn’t ‘do’ anything about it.”
― Luke Mitchell, Borderline Dreamtime: Second revised edition. Book two of the Tyro Series.