The Mind Creative MAY 2015 | Page 55

Wait! AHA! We never thought about the hottest possibility ever! Look at this. If the Princess refuses both the options? What if she chooses to just go off by herself? See, didn’t I tell you it was hot? Just so with it! OK guys, let’s do it! First, draw a lo-oong vertical line under ‘Princess’ – like this, see? Now. OK, so what the options here? Hmm….mm…. now, this is a little difficult…. Um hmm – you see, this one doesn’t seem to have clear cut options….anything can happen, right? She might stand on her own feet and get herself an identity, or she may get sold at a brothel. Or… become a manual labour, go hungry, wash utensils in people’s houses? Become the wife of a rickshaw puller and get battered every day for the rest of her life. Or who knows, she might just make a packet by selling her hair secret? Become a hair festival consultant for other kingdoms? Or maybe become a hobo? Or a witch? Be proud of her desperate step, or regret it? It can happen, can’t it? All of it? Anything can happen – who is there to stop her now? That’s the problem with getting uprooted from your context – tidy endings become impossible. Look, now I have had just enough of it. Let’s finish this quick. Just draw a horizontal line at the bottom of the vertical line, and start writing the options. 55