I'd often wonder how it came to pass. How it came to me. And now to you as well. There must be more to it. If it were just cause and effect then it should be possible to backtrack and find out where it started. What the trigger was. Something like my hearing "voices" when I was twelve? Or the shock of going to high school, to that particular school.
Does it really matter why or how, I hear you say. Compared with the future of the world, for instance... Well, to me it does, at least some of the time. And if you have been pulled away from the ephemera of daily life and suddenly been confronted with the important questions, well don't you want to know why?
I mean it's uncomfortable. And unusual. You try it.
© Farmer 26 January 1996