Every Story Must Have a Beginning

This is a true enough statement. You can't start in the middle, or even the end. They would cease to be what they are and become the beginning. You can't avoid it. You can't run away. There simply must be a beginning. So where does that leave me? Where do I place my beginning?

Tough to choose. So I won't. YOU will. Yes you. Don't look behind you. I am not talking to the person behind you in the internet cafe, nor am I talking to the person walking past on the street outside wherever it is you call home. I talking to YOU. You alone will bear the responsibility of choosing my beginning. I know what you are thinking - "I didn't choose this weight to be placed on my shoulders". And you would be right, you didn't. That was my choice. But you have to live with it. And therein lies the paradox. I chose not to choose, and ergo made a choice. I simultaneously placed that weight and removed it at the same time. I also started something. I gave this a beginning.

So here we are. Confused? Me too.

This is going to be part narrative, part fiction, part recount. It is what it will be. I can not predict what I will write in here, nor can I honestly say I will write in here. It is here. That should be enough.

Let's see what happens.

Lift the curtains please.