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as if everyone had awoken one morning from the same dream. It was insanity to poison your environment to save a dime. It was insanity to build bigger and bigger bombs to keep the peace. Guns were melted down into scrap metal. Police officers put their uniforms away.
I don’t think it’s terrible to say that a little bit of hardship, a little tension, makes for more interesting art.”
“Trina, everyone who has been joined even once with The Seep knows that we’re all the same. We’re all of the same essences, all layers of identity are just that, layers, and you can play with them just as we play with our appearances—”
It’s dangerous, all that ‘nonseparation, we’re all the same, there is no good or bad’ stuff. Makes accountability very slippery.”
They could cycle through together endlessly, learning how to love each other in different permutations of being, in something bigger and grander and stranger than pure romance. Love as a verb, an action, an adventure in knowing.
“You people, you think happiness is the only important thing about being alive. I’m serious when I say I’m not interested in happiness. This old body hurts. That’s as worthy an experience as any.”
“I am all the things I don’t know. Everything is unfolding as it should, and that doesn’t mean I can’t be mad about it.”
How could you worship change and worship the past at the same time?
time is embodied learning! that’s why memory exists! why failures are never truly failures, and mistakes are always glorious! no matter what,
“That’s the thing The Seep never understood about us.” She smiled. “That we sometimes like things even though they’re bad for us.”
We’re supposed to have free will. That includes being unhappy. That includes making the wrong decisions and getting hurt, or even doing something terrible. We’re on this planet to grow and change, and sometimes that can only happen through struggle. Do you understand?”
Right now, you have a body, a mind, and a memory that extends backward through time’s infinite doorways. You are an everyday miracle. Enjoy life. Because even with the promise of forever, nothing lasts.
