I Don’t Buy Green Bananas

Dear Plans, “Don’t buy green bananas,” he says. “Why?” she says. “Because I might not be around to eat them.” The joke started when Kristin began dating a man who had cancer twice. He did not think she would stay. It is hard to plan a life with a person who might die. While they were dating, cancer came a third time. She fell in love with him anyway. There is an entire industry built around you, Plans. We are always trying to get ahead of life, to map it, control it, make it make sense before it happens. Lately, I find myself lying awake about plans. I ride in cars without drivers. I talk and write with a robot. My thoughts are a strange cocktail of existential dread, anxiety, and optimism. So why do I keep buying green bananas? I buy the sticky notes, the journals and the planning apps. Heck, I even painted an office wall in whiteboard paint once. I can’t remember anything I wrote. Kristin married a man who had cancer three times. He’s been in remission for 21 years and yet she told me they still take their lives, one day at a time. “Just buy the yellow bananas, Robert,” she said. Write your future, Robert PS: Want to forward or share this story to someone who might need it? Use the same link: https://stories.dearworld.com/book/i-dont-buy-green-bananas