The Intangible

by C.J. Washington

“Sometimes it’s about faith. Believing that something bigger than yourself is putting you where you need to be.”

She’d never liked the idea of romance because it meant that your happiness depended on another person. People, in her experience, were anything but dependable.

It was a fundamental structure of time, and she was coming to see that no probing would get her around it. Time moved incessantly in one direction. As desperately as she tried, it was impossible to connect in a meaningful way to the past because she was no longer the person who’d experienced that past. She’d moved forward, and her existence could only be realized in the present. Defeat.

“The only way to live meaningfully is to forge new connections. As much as we want what we had in our past, we can only experience the present.