Iterations
Have you felt like you were being pulled to different directions (at least in your mind) by versions of you that could've possibly existed? Not a casual ‘what if’ grazing at the back of your mind, a stray thought that can get a very economical, opportunity cost-ish resolution (not that such thoughts aren't bothersome). As a kid, when I was studying, if I knew I had a particularly vexing subject or homework, I would keep the book under my bed — out of sight, out of mind, or at least out of the forefront of my mind. But this pull is not like that, it's much more visceral - because the current version of you isn't formed yet, not completely. So the other versions of you are very real possibilities of what you can be in the here and now. A much more dangerous version of literary interstices. It feels like the other version of you is there and you can pull it into you. My primary school teachers have this version of a very annoying, talkative girl who should have talked wa...