When I was younger, better looking, and dumber, and still knew everything, I was convinced in the indisputable truth of binary determinism. All problems could be solved algorithmically. Broken down into its smallest components, every problem could eventually be converted into yes/no questions that always had a correct answer of yes or no, 1 or 0.
As I’ve gotten older and not-so-wise, I’ve realized, “Hey, not so fast.”
Some questions have proven irrefutably, repeatedly, exasperatingly, and counter-intuitively to have not just more than one answer, but impossibly, every possible answer.
How profoundly that changes life and how it’s lived. More accurately, it is this realization that causes perceived change because what is always was and will always be