The Flight Risk

by Macon Leigh

all suffering comes from our desire to make something impermanent, permanent. I embrace impermanence and suffer comparatively little.”

the idea of the red thread of fate—this Eastern myth that argues that people who are meant to be in our lives are connected to us by an invisible red thread. This thread cannot be broken, no matter how twisted or tangled or stretched it becomes. You cannot cut your red thread. It is impossible to sever this tie.

“Entropy. Everything is chaos.” I stood up. “Trying to create order out of the chaos, instead of just experiencing it, that’s why we suffer. That’s what makes us crazy.”