Arbit III

I don't want more. Well, maybe a little more, but not a lot more. But I definitely don't want less. And, for me, the long term is more important than the short term. So, to not have less in the long term, I can afford to lose a little in the short term. But where does the short term end, and the long term begin? When do I stop losing and start gaining? What if life's like a rainbow, a real rainbow, where you know the extremes are different, but there are no lines, no boundaries, no watersheds? Maybe you can see and tell if a point is distinguishable from another ten years later, but can't tell it from the ones next to it. Can you tell where to stop and where to begin? Where you can start getting at least as much as you used to before you started having a little less? Can you draw the lines?

And what if life is like the rainbow we know, the perceived rainbow of seven colours, where you can tell red from orange, indigo from violet? That tells you what stage to end, and which to begin. Maybe what you really want by the time you get, say, from blue to green, is a gain in X and Y. But when you get there, you realize you've lost so much of X that you can never have it all back. And Y just keeps growing purposelessly till you reach red.