Thursday, 14 July 2011

The Cat's Cradle.

I was thinking about magic today, and in particular the using of spells to bend circumstances to one's will. It occurred to me that nearly all the choices we make – even the small, innocuous ones, even the ones we have every right to make – influence not only our own road, but that of others, too.

No doubt that’s just how life is – being constantly affected by the choices of others, I mean. We all have to do it, of course: make choices. It’s only that I hadn’t realised before just how intertwined the roads of all us sentient beings are. A new sense of responsibility could make me nervous if I allowed it to.

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