haHA -ben yamiin

"I found you" is all people manage to muster when I am just walking down the street, and who can blame them. After years of toil, seeking me out with the same fervor the 70s attacked the multi-colored cubes that arrived without explanation demanding to be solved, they just run into me on the street. It is unrewarding, and I understand that. All the years you have been looking for me, I can't just walk out and shake your hand and shatter the childhood dreams and unspoken promises of grandeur attained by finding me. But I do need to be found, and I was rather hoping you would know why. As Machiavelli explained himself to "The Prince" (Yes, The The Prince):

Just as those who draw landscapes place themselves
below in the plain to contemplate the nature of the
mountains and of lofty places, and in order to contemplate
the plains place themselves upon high mountains, even so
to understand the nature of the people it needs to be a
prince, and to understand that of princes it needs to be
of the people.

I'm not sure which of us gets to be the mountain, and which the plains, but it will do enough to see and be seen and come away the better for it.

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