So I've been thinking lately

What if
he's on a journey out to find himself
reading Hemingway and Emerson (his namesake) and roughing it at Walden Pond
smoking foreign cigars
and staring deep into coffee
to decipher the meaning of the swirls of smoke
that rise from it in the morning?
What if
he's asking ChaCha! the meaning of life
or trying out a new brand of shampoo
or attempting to set a high score on Tetris
or out burning down bridges just to see them ablaze
or doing volunteer work,
reading to disabled children at the local library?
What if
he's decided that this is all too much,
that he'd prefer to live in anonymity
trading his celebrity for secretarial work or carrot-harvesting
or breeding exotic fish
or renting out those inflatable jumping-castles?
What if
he's tired of all those books in Technicolor
all the paparazzi out to get him
and commercialize his favorite beanie
just because he's on vacation because he pulled some strings at the office
thus catapulting him into some movie set halfway across the world?
What if he's sick and tired of them hunting down his girlfriend
his dog
that random wizard mentor guy that's a deadringer for Dumbledore?
What if he would rather sit at home and watch the Game Show Network
and change his name to something boring like John instead of living up to a thinker's expectations?
Or maybe just the opposite, he's just watching Family Feud to pass the time because he WANTS to be a thinker
but doesn't know how?
Or maybe Family Feud just makes him lonely because he doesn't have a real family,
just that evil guy with funny glasses and ****** hair and an awful Hamburglar taste in clothes?
What if he's decided he's on the wrong path
and needs to turn his life around?

What if Waldo doesn't want to be found?

"mucha bela chacha
kare uhlo uhlo
moko mae meka
vaka tepe mae suragha ni hoi"

"sleep my child
do not cry
or else the
white man ship
will come and take you"

Gives one an identity and status,
It identifies you from other people
Unlike the English like grandparent, uncles and aunt,
Asians have particular names for each kin.
Such as in the Gujratis,
Father's parents are Dada and dadi,
Mother's parents are nana and nani.
Father's brother is kaka(chacha) and kaki(chachi
Mother's brother is mama and mami
Father's sister is faiji and husband fuaji
Mother's sister is masi and masaji.
Even the niece and nephew are identified differently.
It is also said that a Mother's sister is almost your mother.
I don't like when my kins call me aunty.
I may be uncle or aunty for others but I want to maintain my particular status with you,
So others can know how closely related I am to you.
6/3/2024