Sleep Before Waking

IF

It is, I’m not lying. From every professor, one after the other.

First it was my Shakespeare Professor, as we dissected As You Like It. “There is much power in if,” Shakespeare said, and I wondered.

The next day I had Directing class. As we dissected some aspect of stagecraft and why we considered ourselves good Directors, which was a question I had some trouble with given my humble nature. Bahaha, you can’t tell if I am kidding, can you? It’s ok. No one can. But that’s beside the point, suddenly she breaks out with, “It’s the possibilities of “As If.” And I noticed it, I will tell you true. I noticed.

THEN we careen around the corner into Creative Writing class and my Professor (Andre Dubus III) comes in toting a book from which he reads a selection. What was that book called you ask? What if?

As a result of these strange coincidences, I have decided to take this as a sign of something truly deep and moving, and perhaps life hanging. That sign is:

The word IF is stalking me.