Twisted Mental Meanderings on the Nature of Possessions

[<] [>]  by Sue Bowers[+]

10 October 2012

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Drabble Challenge #15

Prompt: unintentional

If you stole a homeless guy's bookbag, would he still feel like he'd had nothing left to lose?

Paradoxically, even the affluent would find things in there they don't have, things that could teach them something...if only empathy for the bag's previous owner.

What if one drove around and offered random street folk $100 for their bags—on the spot? All or nothing.

Would they trade?

Interestingly, while tragedy is the obvious perception of this situation, the existence of hobos implies that some feel otherwise: an unintentional good fortune in being tied to nothing—and thereby, possessing total freedom.

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