Just so. No longer did I see the rules as underlying reality -- rather, all was one, the mechanism and the result so profoundly intertwined that to separate them was to lose all sense of both. In that moment, I felt swept away, and all my notions of what is true and possible vanished. If it could be imagined, I felt, it could be done.
That very day, I began my travels. To see the world, to hear its voice, feel its breath. Knowing full well that every single thing I experienced was unique, both in that moment and in eternity.
[Even now, so much later and after so much, the words hum with unbreakable joy.]
And though the ugly, horrible, painful things shall come no matter what, each of the ones we live through shapes our lives forever. One needn't rejoice at the pain and suffering one endures, but for the joy and delight that follow.
[She turns back to face him as they emerge from the trees, her smile faintly sad but her delight in all things undiminished despite that.]
If not for the losses and pain we both endured, we would not be here, having this conversation at this time, on this pleasant trail in a beautiful world, beneath the stars. Had things gone differently even the slightest bit... perhaps we would be happier. Perhaps we would be very different people from who we are now. We cannot know, and wondering about it is rather pointless save for amusement, is it not? Instead, I am glad for this moment, though the road to reach it had its fair share of pain.
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Date: 2024-06-17 02:06 pm (UTC)That very day, I began my travels. To see the world, to hear its voice, feel its breath. Knowing full well that every single thing I experienced was unique, both in that moment and in eternity.
[Even now, so much later and after so much, the words hum with unbreakable joy.]
And though the ugly, horrible, painful things shall come no matter what, each of the ones we live through shapes our lives forever. One needn't rejoice at the pain and suffering one endures, but for the joy and delight that follow.
[She turns back to face him as they emerge from the trees, her smile faintly sad but her delight in all things undiminished despite that.]
If not for the losses and pain we both endured, we would not be here, having this conversation at this time, on this pleasant trail in a beautiful world, beneath the stars. Had things gone differently even the slightest bit... perhaps we would be happier. Perhaps we would be very different people from who we are now. We cannot know, and wondering about it is rather pointless save for amusement, is it not? Instead, I am glad for this moment, though the road to reach it had its fair share of pain.