I just had a long and ridiculously involved debate over the existence of unicorns. Jack was on the affirmative, and I was on the negative. I got Jack to concede, but it took some doing. There’s a part of me that’s glad that practicality and common sense have prevailed, but I admit to feeling the slightest bit of guilt. It breaks my heart, deconstructing the hopes of dreamers. At the end of our conversation, Jack proposed a question that I might have asked once, were I not so jaded. “The only thing that I wonder about,” he said, “is why so many default to disbelief rather than belief.” Well Jack, despite your best efforts, I’m no more convinced that unicorns exist than I was before. But at the very least, you’ve made me wish that I could believe.
Filed Under: Friendship, Human Condition
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“The only thing I wonder about is why so many default to disbelief rather than belief.”
Simple: there are so many things that are false in this world. Illusions.
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