In this case, the Alternative is a place. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

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In this case, the Alternative is a choice.

Or perhaps, it is the lack of one. The Alternative is what you get when you do not make a choice, or when you do not like the choice you are given to make.

In a different case, far away from here, the Alternative is a person. And that person is a moment, and that moment is your choice. The Alternative can be all things at once. That is why the Alternative is also a place.

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Is this making sense?

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The Alternative can be anything, but it cannot be a feeling. A feeling, The Feeling, is the only thing that exists outside the Alternative. The Feeling is not a place. The Feeling is what happens when you find the Alternative. The Feeling is what happens when you make your choice, which is why the Alternative cannot be the Feeling.

Between the Alternative and the Feeling, there is a brief space of Nothing. Nothing does not technically exist outside of the Alternative, because the Nothing is nothing, and therefore does not exist at all.

But the Nothing is not the Alternative.

In the Nothing, neither the Alternative nor the Feeling dwell. It is a small piece of reprise just shy of everything outside of it. It is a short breath of fresh air. It is the knot of tension in your shoulders, finally unraveling.

It is none of these things, because it is Nothing.

So now you are familiar with the basics. The Alternative, the Feeling, the Nothing.

They exist, or do not exist, in many different scenarios. They are always here, in one of their many forms.

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In this case, the Alternative is a place.

You see? We are getting there.

This place, the Alternative, is only partially physical. It is a public space, known only among the few of us who know these basics. Among only the few who have made the choice.

What is the choice?

You will soon encounter it. The choice is the Alternative. The choice is the stranger you pass every day on the street, or the one you see on TV, or the one brewed up in your coffee every morning. One day, this stranger make itself known to you. Your choice will be made. You will have met the Alternative, and then you may come to the Alternative, to this partially-physical space of few and scattered.

After you make your choice, you will meet the Feeling. Try not to stare too long. Some have looked and never unlooked. We do not wish this fate upon you.

You will never meet the Nothing.

In the Alternative, you have freedom. We will not see each other. You will forget what you have learned. You will forget the basics: the Alternative, the Feeling, the Nothing you have never met.

This is getting complicated. You are getting lost.

None of this is important. None of this is true. A madman’s blabber, and nothing more. Or perhaps you know it is true, because you have seen it all before. Perhaps this is your reminder of what exists, or, what does not exist.

The Alternative, the Feeling, the Nothing.

I’m this case, the Alternative is you.

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