Everyone participates in two games: Survival and What-If:
one with goal lines that must be crossed;
the other consisting of nothing but strategy.
Everyone is in two businesses:
one is unified and strictly local;
the other is made up of disparate, far-flung franchises.
Everyone lives in two worlds: one real, one pretend-real;
both are real enough to be lived in,
but only one can actually support life.
Everyone enjoys two things: one they can handle, one they can’t,
but unique with humans, it makes no difference,
they can enjoy them both.
Everyone goes on two journeys: one of them goes nowhere,
and for it, each person must invent their own imaginary destination;
the other one, everybody KNOWS where the other one goes.
Everyone has two sets of what they believe to be true about life:
one they really believe and the other, they say they do.
Everyone has two boxes of criticism: one for things-out-there,
the other for things-in-here, and between the two,
everybody’s got everything covered complaint wise.
Everyone is twice a dunce: both times for not realizing all of this.
J.