Jul -- Projects and Creations: littering

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Posted on 07-11-11 08:04:58 AM

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"What are you doing?"

"I'm littering" he replied. He wadded up another piece of paper and tossed it over his shoulder.

"I can see that."

"That is what you can see." He turned around and watched the piece of paper float downstream. "That is all you can see." He ripped another sheet of paper out of the spiral notebook. "Maybe that's all you should see. I don't know." He crumpled the paper. "Maybe that's all you want to see." The piece of paper joined its soggy companions.

"What?"

"Allow me to explain." He held out his arms. "Right now, we are standing on a bridge above a river. Up above there are clouds blocking the sun. The air is warm, there is no breeze. On both ends of this bridge, there are the buildings and people and streets making up a small town. You can hear people talking, a dog barking, a song playing somewhere in the distance, and the sound of this paper as I crumple it up. Over there," he pointed, "is a streetlamp that needs a new bulb. Over there," he pointed, "is a crow digging in a gutter. And over there," he pointed, "is a tree with a small heart, filled with the initials of two lovers, carved into the lowest branch and weathered by the passing years. That is what you see," he turned around, "and that is not what I see." He smiled as he sent yet another sheet of paper sailing through the air towards a watery destination.

"What do you see?"

"You take everything I said as fact, but did you notice any of it before I mentioned it? How do you know it was like that the entire time?" As he sat down, a grim expression replaced his smile. "I see emptiness. I see this notebook, I see this paper, and I see it float away." He dropped the paper wad. It bounced and fell off the bridge. "I don't see the bridge, the river, the buildings, or the tree with the heart carved into it." He sighed. "I don't see you, either."

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