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The Possibilities Project
 
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Possibilities

John Russell-Hodge —

I prefer indoors to outdoors.
I prefer rain to being drenched in sun.
I prefer off-white to cream.
I prefer wooden floors to carpet.
I prefer woollen rugs to cold, hard, polished wood.
I prefer Mahler to Matisse.
I prefer van Gogh to Goebbels.
I prefer sound to blindness.
I prefer the touch of silk to the taste of vinegar.
I prefer photographs to video.
I prefer black and white to colour.
I prefer iPhone to noPhone.
I prefer to not prefer iPhone to noPhone.
I prefer charging to not being charged.
I prefer pen to tablet.
I prefer tablet to sword.
I prefer silence to tweets that say nothing.
I prefer Google to Facebook.
I prefer books to faces.
I prefer questions to answers.
I prefer evil to Google.
I do not prefer evil.
I prefer thinking laterally to running.
I prefer swimming in lanes to running in all directions.
I prefer being dry to being wet.
I prefer anything to running.
I prefer not to run.
I prefer light to dark.
I prefer the night sky through a window than the sun through a flower.
I prefer stars to the moon.
I prefer sunset to sunrise.
I prefer solid light to rainbows.
I prefer black and white to grey.
I prefer truth to black.
I prefer grey to lies.
I prefer black to white supremacy.
I prefer silence to surrender.
I prefer ambiguity to ambition.
I prefer hope to suicide.
I prefer learning to failure.
I prefer pain to an unending joy that knows no bounds to lust.
I prefer to learn.
I prefer head to mindfulness.
I prefer to change my preference for that.
I prefer breathlessness to not thinking.
I prefer not running to not thinking.
I do not prefer to not think.