Headaches Return

Midori said, "What seems good long-term is bad short-term. What seems bad short-term is good long-term."

Potteri asked, "Wait, so what's long-term is always good?"

Midori replied, "Indeed what's long-term is always good. That's what 'long-term' really means...."

Midori then added, "The question is if one is able to withstand the loneliness that is associated with any long-term kaleidoscopes."

Potteri interjected, "What do you mean by long-term kaleidoscopes?"

Midori apologized, "Sorry, I use the word kaleidoscopes in place of other words, when I can't find any names for them. But in fact, I'd like pretty much everything to be a long-term kaleidoscope."

Potteri chanted: "To be good or not to be."

Midori went to bed.

Mark Twain said: "Be good and you will be lonely."

"Kaleidoscopes," Midori muttered in her sleep.

Loneliness seems good for a while, but is not sustainable. What's good always breaks down - but that is the short-term. In the long-term, what is broken is broken; what is not is not. Is change always bad? Yes, in the short-term. But in the long-term, change has a way of reappearing in the most unexpected places: oh gladness, fresh morning. It is not forgetting; it is remembering. I must begin wearing multiple watches, all hands pointing toward different hours in extra-temporal, inter-dimensional disunity.