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Imag­ine your­self try­ing to get a prom date. You ask three girls, all of them charm­ing and desir­able in their own ways. Imag­ine they all three say, not yes or no–but maybe, let me think about it. You spend the next 4–6 weeks on pins and nee­dles con­tem­plat­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties, hop­ing that one of them, any one of them, will like you enough to say yes.

Imag­ine that they reply, telling you how witty you are, or how quirky, or how strong. Or worse, how much poten­tial you have. Imag­ine that they say some say nice things that you make believe you’re so hot, you be star­ring in a shav­ing com­mer­cial. But in the end, alas, they decline. Imag­ine they all say this all on the same day, one after the other in quick succession.

That was my Friday.

*Sigh*

For­ward and upward, com­pre­hen­sion and knowledge.