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PROBLEM –
You’ve cleaned out the rooms. You stand on the threshold and look inward. A showroom stares back at you. Why are you still here? Why can’t you let her go? If you avoid the mirror, you still meet your own gaze in the sink. The water that fills it is still and clear. It’s fit for consumption -- just like you. If you keep everything exactly the way that it is, will the water always be so clean?
+1 Empathy: The mirror neurons in your sink
SOLUTION –
No. The water won’t stay clear forever. It will stagnate. The green in your eyes will spread like algae. You wake up, stumble to your bathroom and wash your face with it. Six mornings a week, your dearest friend drives you both to your deaths, while the children that you wage war against scream in your ears.
+2 Empathy: I have lingered too long on this threshold
-2 Esprit De Corps: But where can I go?