advice

i love the concept of 'advice'
[i love ethnography]
that there would be a situation that we come up against and we know that there is a 'right' or a 'wrong' thing to do, a 'good' or a 'bad' outcome. sure, most of the time it's minimising the pain of all parties involved (that seems to be the greatest desire of man; minimal pain and evading death) - but there is still a proverbial path we need to take and we can't see it.
so we go to someone else who's living and breathing and facing their own intersections and we say "can you take a look at this for me?" we invite them to come and see the puzzle we've been handed and we want them to solve it for us. so we paint them the events leading up to the situation and as much detail and information as possible surrounding the events. and then from two dimensional awareness we are given the advice we were after. [as if life in its symphonic complexity could be relayed in a series of sentences and events]. the logical guess towards the future from a person who is looking into a black and white photo we've taken from our limited angle and then have developed poorly. and daily we're walking down roads that we've been encouraged towards, we're following something we hope turns out to be good advice.