Choice

artwork by James Gwynne

The distance between what a person is and what they are not is not wide. No great expanse separates us from our possibility. It does not lie so dormant that we cannot sense it. There is no long shadow to hide or to disfigure it. We carry it inside, and we carry it always. There is no man without the same choice: to reach out for what he is not, or to let himself only be what is.