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"There's a reason the man and woman sitting on the mangy couch hold hands.
They've endured what you and I have not, and what they’ve endured has led them
to question whether to live. You see it in their faces, in their bearing, in
the shared glances before speaking, a weighted maturity that slumps their
shoulders and draws into sharper contrast their youth: he with his shaggy
reddish-brown hair and childlike freckles, she with her olive complexion and
taut cheekbones and tattoos up and down her arms.
When a catastrophe happens, they say, you can choose to see it as random, as
they each have. Randomness, though, is “a hard thing to come to terms with,”
she says. A random life is a chaotic one, a meaningless one, ultimately a
hopeless one. On the other hand, to view catastrophe as fated, which they have
each done as well, is no better. “You ask, ‘Why me? What have I done to deserve
this?’ ” the man says. A fated life is a guilt-stricken one, an angry one,
ultimately a shameful one.
There’s a way out of this paradox. Finding the way out is the point of their
story, they say. Finding the way out has given them a wisdom about life that
haunts them. It is also a wisdom they would never trade. It explains why
they’re sitting next to each other, on a ratty couch in a tiny rental a
continent away from everything they know, and, yes, still holding hands."
Via
Fix the News:
https://fixthenews.com/275-resurrection-notre-dame/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
