I'm Short Volatility

It is like the first day I learned that gravity wasn't real.
As in gravity - the concept I had previously learned - didn't exist.
I learned. 

There is no force that pulls us down.
Apologies to Newton, we know that apple was convincing.
Take solace, you will forever place second in the big derby of apple-trickery
history.

We aren't pulled at all, rather pushed
and not by a friendly mathematical constant
but instead by the planet, or at least the forces upon it,
as it spirals through space
& time.

It is time that fixes you to the place that you are;
which makes sense when you think about it.
Ok, it makes sense when I think about it.
I do think about it.

The concept of time already seems to push many to their freezing point,
I'm talking absolute zero on a particularly windy day,
when it is hard to tell which way is north
and you run aground.  Grounded.
Left to thaw only in time to reflect
on what was, as opposed to what will be.

Does being pushed instead of pulled change things?
It certainly does for me.

I am pulled in a million directions,
pulled back to reality,
pulled up by my boot-straps,
pulled through a storm,
pulled into love.
I am not pushed anywhere.

It is not the surface of Earth but the surface of
time that I am attached to.
I can handle that - time is optionality after all.
I have always been good with the valuation of options.
Just ask Mr. Market.