A Really, Really Big Thing

Although most of what I write might seem like sticky notes stolen from a bad comedian’s apartment, I only write about things that feel important to me. I write about things that I find interesting, or things that bug me, or the little ideas that I know could turn into big ideas if I give them a little tug.

But something has happened over the past couple of weeks that has rendered all other thoughts as static. This something has, for better or worse, changed my life. This is a sudden, unplanned change, and the rest of my year will be radically different from the one I anticipated while counting down the seconds to midnight on New Year’s Eve.

But what I want to focus on here isn’t the reasons for such a change, but the rarity, or irregularity, of an occasion that can alter the course of your life like a game of Russian Roulette gone wrong.