Once upon a time...

There was a man.

Once upon a time there was a man who had everything, but didn’t know how to be. He would try and try, but nothing seemed to work. He talked to friends, wise ones, children and lovers across the seas, and nothing. The question, always the same: “How is it that you came to be?” The answer, too: “I just am.”

This man, who was smart, and educated, and could …