“This is the true religion, the religion of snow,
and sunlight and winter geese barking in the sky”
- Billy Collins
I used to think the path to enlightenment
was an excel spreadsheet
with a 0% margin of error
That if I input the correct formulas,
calculated each value to the nth degree of accuracy
I could artificially generate happiness
I spent so much time attempting
to integrate derivatives of daily life
that I forgot I was already alive
Only when my excel software crashed
and I glanced away from my screen
did I realize the solution to my equation
had been outside my window this entire time