John and Terry were sitting on a tree in an open field and were trying to write a poem. They were writing a poem separately. But coincidentally they wrote the very same lines and the very same words. Even the commas matched to the dot. Incidentally both did not use any commas. This is the poem they wrote-
Random Nothingness.
Onwards towards the path of nothingness
Nothing has been seen and nothing has been taken.
On the path to disaster and plenitude
Seemingly smart, but obnoxiously dull.
There is nothing but flotsam and jetsam of everything
The life, the universe and everything as Dougie would put it.
Onwards towards the path of nothingness
The destination is reached when you don’t know that you have reached it.
They compared the poems that they had written. When they noticed that the poems they had written were identical they were dismayed. Now they would have to converse with each other. Reluctantly, they started conversing. The quality of conversation was not bad. This was how it went.
John-" My day job is of an equity analyst. Instead, I daydream and become an existential analyst"
Terry-" I am a professional nailcutter. People who are too bored and lazy to cut their own nails come to me to get their nails cut. I have a booming profession"
John-"Oh"
Then they started looking at the hands of each other. Terry had the most beautiful and well shaped hands. Just like words shape your mind, the shape of the hands blows away your mind. John was getting blown away by the shape of the hands. He noticed his own hands. His hands were identical to Terry`s. He got suspicious. He carefully looked at Terry and noticed his reflection looking back from a mirror placed on the tree. He cursed expletives at having met himself. Is my name really John, John wondered. "No", his mind replied, "Your name is Jerry and you are a combination of John and Terry".
"Very convenient" thought Jerry who previously existed as John and had an alter ego called Terry.
Jerry was perplexed. He started contemplating the complexity of the situation. He decoded the situation as follows-" It’s cloudy today. Chances of rain perhaps" Jerry concluded. He jumped from the tree, landed on the ground and proceeded to buy an umbrella.