I am going to explain destiny. Two men, Ted and Leonard, sit at the edge of a pier and stare into the water, listening to the frogs crick crick. They stare into the water with a sort of intensity and longing, like they lost something they can never recover. They want answers they will never get. Me, I stand behind an open window and look at them. After a relative span of time they become old and turn to look at me with their deepset mad eyes before they lean forward and finally vanish into the stillness. I step out when it’s my turn and find a pale woman standing at the pier, waiting, sometimes holding the hand of the little girl in the yellow dress and white sandals. She smiles and we stand and watch the water together. When a relative span of time has passed the pale woman walks forward without so much as a kiss to the wind and plunges in. I walk and sit at the edge of the pier where Ted and Leonard stared and find myself unable to do anything but stare into the water, listening to the frogs crick crick.