Sunrise

“Why did you move out east?”

“Many reasons, I was looking for something.”

“Does the chance to see the sun rise before others lie among these reasons?”

“Yes, I suppose it does.”

“But why? So others can watch that same sun fall later?”

“Only for it to rise on me again the next day.”

“Then? The process just repeats. Besides, are you using these extra few hours to achieve anything?”

“Of course!”

“Like what?”

“I... I can’t tell you, it’s not ready yet.”

“Can it ever be finished if you never start it?”

“How do you know I haven’t started it?”

“Because I know you, I’ve watched you, you don’t even see the sun rise as you claimed to be so important to you.”

“Just because I didn’t see it, it didn’t happen?”

“Well, no...”

“So just because I didn’t start, doesn’t mean I didn’t finish.”

“I’m not sure I follow.”

“Something that is never started, is surely already finished.”

“How so?”

“Something has to be in a state of change to be declared capable of being finished one day. Therefore, if it’s never started, it can never be in a state of change, and is then already finished.”

“So an unplanted seed is a tree?”

“No, but it is a seed nonetheless. Perhaps it never had any ambition of being a tree. We may be given the necessary tools and traits to achieve a certain thing, but that doesn’t mean we have to.”

“No, I guess it doesn’t. But who seeks the shade of a seed?”

“None, I presume. But who seeks to taste a tree? Either way, who says our ambitions should be guided by the benefit of others?”

“It’s true, yes, but know that the capacity for you to have such ambitions is made possible by the ambitions of those before you being achieved. If every seed was already finished, there’d be no air to breathe.”

“Be that as it may, perhaps it’d be for the best anyway.”

“Quiet now, the sun is rising, isn’t that what you wanted?”

“Yes, I suppose so. Thanks, dad.”

“I’m not your dad.”

“Oh.”