An Alternate Angle

You raise your right hand in front of the mirror. The other perspective raises its left hand.

You scratch your itch and notice as if the opposite hand is also scratching its itch.

As if it is a same-yet-different-looking life. An alternate life.

People who quit smoking feel as if they get an alternate life. Without smoke.

A hook can give (or take) an alternate life to a jacket.

A goalkeeper saves a goal to experience an entirely alternate life for a second.

We invest in a fund for our education, home, or health.

In an alternative life, we invest in a fund for how to spend a rainy day.

OR, on how to make you smile alone sitting in a crowd even if they are looking at you.

There is no or little direct correspondence in what we need and what we want. Because these are alternately positioned.

We learn about alternate angles in geometry. We use a “given” to prove something. In life too, we use a “given”, to prove something.

Only that we do not validate the angles as well as how we do that while solving geometry.

For our alternate selves.

For an alternate life.

For the Smoke that engulfs a Jacket hanging on that Goal.

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