Life on Powerpoint

This is not the beginning. The beginning was last October. This is merely a continuation of the beginning. It’s not quite a middle, but like I said, it is not the beginning.

Is there a word for the space between beginning and middle or is it simply a nameless existence in which something is transformed into something else? And if so, is there a precise moment when the beginning of something turns into the middle or does it depend on the situation, or does it maybe sometimes never happen? And if it sometimes never happens does it stay a beginning forever or does it just skip the middle altogether and catapult straight toward the end?

I could see how that could happen. You start at the beginning and are told that the middle will be coming up next. You wait for it. Waiting, waiting. But who tells you how to get to the middle? Is it merely a passing of time and then you’re there or is there some rite of passage that has to be performed? The instructions are in bullet points but that isn’t how we read. Bullet points are used when there will be a speaker to explain them to you in greater detail. In order to understand. But we just have freaking bullet points with no speaker.

• Beginning
• Middle
• End

The end must be easier to determine than the middle. There is generally a finishing of something which marks the end. What you were doing, you now are not. It is impossible to not know that you have ended something. Same for the beginning. You start something which you were not doing previously. It would be a hard thing in which to claim ignorance.

The idea that the middle could be so easily missed is troubling though. It seems so important, what with the bullet point and all, that I would hate for it to simply pass me by with out some sort of acknowledgement.

But I do know that I’m not at the middle. The beginning was in October. If I knew when the end would be I might be able to determine the middle. Seems like an wildly important thing to miss. I could miss it though. After all, look where we are.

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