“There’s a brilliant, beautiful, priceless piece of art hanging right in front of you. It’s sophisticated and meticulously detailed — a painstaking labor of passion and deep devotion. The colors, patterns, and textures are like no other — they soar and dip, they shine bright and leap right off the canvas at you. And yet you choose to focus your eyes on the tiny, dark housefly that has landed on the edge this masterpiece. Why would you choose to do such a thing?”
Cara cracked a half smile in my direction and then shifted her gaze down to the ground.
“Look,” I continued, “the point here is that there’s no possible way to be 100% certain about anything in this world. Life, like great art, is sophisticated, complex, and somewhat unpredictable. So you’re left with a choice: [Read more…]