German eye twitches

A German girl woke up one morning after a particularly fantastic dream with a peculiar twitch in her eye. She stared at herself in the mirror for a long time. When she asked those around her if they could see the twitch, they said, "Nein." She left the matter there.

Thirty-two years later, a German scientist woke up with a distantly familiar twitch in her eye. She did not bother to ask those around her if they could see it. Her husband would have mentioned it, but did not want to make her self-conscious. After three days, the twitch had not gone away. The woman stared at herself in the mirror a long time.

The German scientist lady proceeded to dedicate the coming years of her life to studying every muscle in the human face; she wanted to know what each of them did, how they were connected to the human brain.

In 2008, she released a study. Of her many findings, one revealed that in every human--no matter race, gender, nationality, or musical preference--there is a small muscle located near the outer eye which, in 100% of homosapien sapiens, will twitch, ever-so-slightly, when one experiences pleasure. The twitch is so automatic, instantaneous that one cannot prevent the response, even if they tried, even if they really, really wanted to.

Perhaps we can never be on the "wrong" path. What else twitches in us that we don't realize? Where do our feet start taking us when we're not paying attention? What are the rest of our bodies saying that we can't or don't want to vocalize through words? How do the things we want but don't admit to, the things we're afraid of wanting, how do these wants bubble to the surface?

Perhaps we can never be on the "wrong" path because we can only ever be our own, twitchy selves. Perhaps we can just decide how much we indulge our twitches, follow them, how fast or slow we decide to move on our universal wavelength.

(German scientist back story may contain dramatizations.)