title. Our Last Chink of Sunlight in a Gloaming Cave of Farewell & Other Stories
date. 2023
copyright voiceHOUSE Productions
FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
Our weakness can be accounted for by our strength.
Our assuredness. Our rightness. Our rational minds. Our mechanistic models. Our logical viewpoints. Our well thought-out opinions. Our edifices, constructed by ego, coated in armor- so long as we cherish these precious mental constructs, we remain disconnected, captives in self. So long as we play the game, attain success, follow the rules, reap the benefits, acquire the possessions and the titles- we are hopeless. So long as we are able to prove ourselves correct, so long as we are able to believe in our ability to control the world around us, so long as things are predictable and work out according to plan- we are amputated from our true humanness. So long as we are taught to obfuscate our vulnerabilities, to belittle sentimentality and sincerity, our tenderness, and tenuousness- we are atomistic, isolated. We are produced by a culture which directs us to work hard, for ourselves. To make it our own. To become something, somebody, assertive in the face of it all. To construct a permanent symbol, to be an individual, in the face of time, evanescence.
But there is hope.
Our strength must necessarily emerge from our weakness.
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