Status Updates From Story Of Your Life

With performative language, saying equal doing.

At that stage of your life, there’ll be no past or future for you; …you’ll have no memory of contentment in the past nor expectation of relief in the future. …everything will reverse, and all will be right with the world. NOW is the only moment you’ll perceive; you’ll live in the present tense. In many ways, it’s an enviable state.

It’s funny: when your tranquil, you will seem to radiate light, and if someone were to paint a portrait of you like that, I’d insist that they include the halo. But when you’re unhappy, you will become a klaxon, built for radiating sound; a portrait of you then could simply be a fire alarm bell.

I won’t understand what you do there, I won’t even understand your fascination… I would prefer it if you’d pursue something without regard for it’s monetary rewards, but I’ll have no complaints… You’ll do what makes you happy, and that’ll be all I ask for.

What all think is that you’re clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won’t be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won’t be someone I could have created by myself.

“Yeah, that’s it. Can I be made of honor?”

Just reading this one short story in the collection!