Couldn't it just be a phase we're working through? But no; I sense that we're not so much phasing as we are shifting somehow; perhaps the best word for our state is shifting. It's not as if we have gone from larval or embryonic to adulthood, and we certainly haven't passed any energy threshold to become vapor. No, shift is what we do and shift is how we will define ourselves.
Soon, I'm sure, we will shift apart, but for now let's take advantage of the vast pressures that have brought us bumping and grinding against each other like icebergs in a midatlantic tidal anomaly.
I've always thought people only shift apart when they choose to.
ReplyDeletePeople put a lot of stock in destiny and whatnot, like, "This is going to end, and it's inevitable," but ... I think it's only inevitable if you decide it is.
Then again, I also know what it's like to rage against the turning of the tide and lose. So there's that.
I know my great grandfather chose to love a woman. He didn't even know her when they got married, but they spent the rest of their lives together.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I remember. Were they happy, do you think?
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