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"How did he deal with that non-assumption of good intent in him, when he encountered it?"
"According to him, poorly." Biella's empathy for the Young Man was palpable. "But, I have much to read yet in the extensive writings you discovered and gifted me. I have something to share which I have put together from the fragmented documents."
A Simple Story....
A friend of the Young Man's said to him, "I have noticed you do some things that are..." his friend faltered, not knowing how to precisely express their reservations and concerns, “that well...some of the things you do are kinda crazy." The friend's smile was a bit feeble, revealing their awkwardness.
"Yeah... I know..." said the Young Man earnestly, "But..." the Young Man grinned fiercely, his eyes twinkling with merriment, "But I do have a lot of fun."
"I have to admit you do have much enjoyment. You're always having fun it seems."
"Yes," the Young Man agreed, still grinning, and asked his friend, "How efficient is efficiency really, if it doesn't include Fun?"
"Ah," his friend said with revelation.
"And..." the Young Man added, "Including a bit of randomness as well, opens up creative possibilities. It is an efficient way of Motivation and Mood-Management."
The Young Man elaborated. "It is easy to fall into the trap of the Expectation of Similarity. Just because something is optimally efficient, does not mean it will remain so. Things change. And even if they don't change, We change. Repetition affects our Perception and our Perspective. So, actual Optimal Efficiency will make allowance for these variables. Very little stays the same in the world. It is why Appropriateness is so reliable. It adapts to the changing Contexts."
"I see..." said his friend, a deep thoughtful expression revealing the inner adjustments taking place. "It seems I will have to do pretty much everything differently from now on."
The Young Man laughed happily, "Isn't that just exactly the way it constantly is? The only constant is Change."
His friend's expression shifted to dismay at these new implications. The Young Man drew his friend into his laughter, sharing the merriment at this Predicament-of-Awareness. "What else can we do but laugh? It's all crazy really, isn't it?"
His friend joined in the laughter. "So it is. So it is."
Biella finished the story, but clearly she was still connected to the earlier conversation. "Impossible Situations," she said. "For the Young Man these were a problem. Not in general, but when it came to what he cared deeply about, like His Heart, he refused to forego his caring as a solution. He utterly refused."
Ursula didn't quite yet see where Biella was going, but knew from experience she was laying a foundation, and clarity would soon come. Ursula stayed open, waiting, knowing Biella was putting pieces together right then, and the communication might not be as smooth as it usually was.
"He utterly refused to let go of his caring, He was stubbornly determined, unrelentingly so. It didn't matter that he perceived the situation as impossible, no matter how much it stressed him, he would not under any circumstance accept giving up that caring." Biella considered.
"Quandary, that's the term he used, when he found himself in these quandaries, he was at a loss. Whatever course of action he had, led to some sort of negative consequence. It bothered him no end. He knew the resolution lay outside of him, but how to leverage that solution, this escaped him. Time pressure was inevitably involved. The Young Man was inordinately troubled by this. He could not, in any way accept that there was not a Positive Resolution to these situations. Yet that's how it was for him. He would not make peace with this reality, as he had done with other unpleasant realities. In this, he absolutely would not. It would mean to him, he had to allow negative consequence for his Heart, an impossibility for him. He would rather the negative be a perception of him. That was the lesser of the evils, but lesser negative is still negative. His habit of never leaving a matter unresolved resulted in much stress from this quandary."
Biella smiled a somewhat sad and rueful smile, smile. She stood up, her demeanour implying there was no more.
"That's it?" Ursula checked.
"Yes," Biella affirmed, "Not all valuable stories have endings."
The End. (For Now)
Excerpted from: The Biella Series, and, The Young Man's Story.
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