Hopelessly trapped in being & forfeiting to be


Sylvia Plath wrote about a fig tree on which every possible future hung.

Before the protagonist could choose a future, all figs fell down rotten on the ground.


— The living all forfeited being dead; the dead all forfeited living. —


All being, as being currently is, requires forfeiting being.

I wish I could be without giving up on being.