Phase Change

When next month begins, I will have entered a new phase of life. Like some sort of strange austenitic allotrope, I will suddenly develop the ability to absorb huge amounts of random carbide and then become tempered in many different ways to produce all kinds of useful versions of the base metal.

Or maybe not; that might just be pushing an interesting metaphor too far. But what is true is that I will suddenly find myself heading out of an intermediate phase of life, with a few months to make the complete transition. And I don't know, for the first time in my life, what I will end up doing.

It is magnificently, hair-raisingly, exhilarating.