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No matter how much we understand about how our perceptions work, ultimately we’ll never escape our limitations.”
and he thinks perhaps there’s a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves as an anesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.
He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one long goodbye to those we love.
And he wonders—is déjà vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality?
“If memory is unreliable, if the past and the present can simply change without warning, then fact and truth will cease to exist. How do we live in a world like that?
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
“My soul knows your soul. In any time.”
We have made it far too easy to destroy ourselves.
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
Life with a cheat code isn’t life. Our existence isn’t something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That’s what it is to be human—the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.
