December 01, 2004

After he told her his overall life philosophy she tried to follow it for as long as she could. His basic tenet was quite dramatic as six-year old’s statements tend to be (and it was also obvious to most that he had overheard it on the subway): Find truth in most things, and let the rest fall. Since she wasn’t at the level of discovering who was lying to her, she started instead paying attention to patterns in the hope that things that were true would happen over and over again and lies simply wouldn’t work for very long. She had found that lying to her parents didn’t work, but that they remembered when she was honest, so she lived the rest of her life like this and it worked out pretty good.

December 1, 2004 04:13 PM