Nothingness

Its the beginning that Simon always found difficult. The endings were often out of his control so he did not fear it, nor the middle part which always came naturally to him. No, it was just the beginnings.

"Beginnings are tough" he said to me once, "because there's no baseline to refer off, no standard norm that you can gauge off"

I could see the method in his thoughts, as little as I know of these things I understood the helplessness of starting afresh.

However, unlike myself, Simon pushed through it more often than not. "Beginnings are tough to be sure, but you gotta get through it, and then you're sweet."

I just nodded and drank another beer.