The Deep
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Read between March 29 - March 29, 2025
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One can only go for so long without asking who am I? Where do I come from? What does all this mean? What is being? What came before me, and what might come after? Without answers, there is only a hole, a hole where a history should be that takes the shape of an endless longing. We are cavities.
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She had no wish to transform trauma to performance, to parade what she’d come to think of as her own tragedies for entertainment.
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Forgetting was not the same as healing.
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Was there anything about her that wasn’t a performance for others’ gratification?
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She couldn’t determine which was worse: the pain of the ancestors or the pain of the living. Both fed off her.
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Who might she have been had she not spent the better part of her life in the minds of others?
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“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
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We are descendants of the people not on the top of the ship, but on the bottom, thrown overboard, deemed too much a drain of resources to stay on the journey to their destination.
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She had room to think. To know what she wanted and believed. And all it had cost her was everything.
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“But your whole history. Your ancestry. That’s who you are.” “No. I am who I am now. Before, I was no one. When you’re everyone in the past, and when you’re for everyone in the present, you’re no one. Nobody. You don’t exist.
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In the old days, when we discovered a ship that threw our ancestors into the sea like refuse, we sunk it. Now we will sink the world.
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Anger was our favorite emotion. We were at home in it. It gave us purpose.
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Pain is energy. It lights us. This is the most basic premise of our life. Hunger makes us eat. Tiredness causes us to sleep. Pain makes us avenge.
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This time, the two-legs venturing into the depths had not been abandoned to the sea, but invited into it.