Beware, I may have attained enlightenment
OK. In terms of its action, and its quest, this story may just be hitting a first climax. BUT before I tell it, I must admit something… Last week’s post was a lie.
I knew it, you’re thinking, I didn’t believe you visited a bank six times to get the cash to buy your thousand trees, and you then ‘coincidentally’ approached a total stranger, in a large, town, who turned out to be the exact guy you needed.
No, no, all that happened, I swear it. The lie, though, lurked in the explanation… Remember how I cheered up, at the end, because Charismatic Oscar, the guy I was buying the trees from, let me let off the 1300 dollars?
I knew you’d buy that, emotionally: who wouldn’t cheer up to be let off 1300 dollars, especially if it allows you to complete the plan you’ve sailed the Atlantic to do? But the truth is, I didn’t reverse from depression to optimism because of money. I did it because of magickal thinking.
What’s that? Andrew, (and btw the word ‘magickal’ makes me think of the worst kind of crystal-waver, the sort who might have a long beard under his chin, to which he attaches a bead). Explain yourself! Redeem yourself (quick!)
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