All This I Will Give to You

by Dolores Redondo

Each and every trajectory was predetermined, a suffering accepted in quest of greater conquest.

Certainty gives only momentary relief, for truth is always overwhelming. You can assimilate it if it comes to you gradually, just as the earth of Galicia absorbs the water falling from the sky; but when truth washes over you like a tsunami, it causes as much anguish as the blackest of all lies.