un: phoenixevolution

[manufactured]

Sometimes the world burns and it's something to be remedied; it's something to be fixed, to be patched up and smoothed over, and you go back to forgetting that it was ever burning to begin with.

And sometimes the world burns, and that's just the state of things. If it's not your new normal, it becomes your generalized normal rather quickly. It's not the end of things, it's just places you no longer go and precautions you become accustomed to taking. Adapt. Overcome. Evolve.

Things are settling again, for now. We'll see if it stays that way or if the scales continue to tip. But while I don't take pleasure in all that's been happening lately, I can't say I haven't missed being part of a world setting itself on fire, either.

Comments

[downswing]

What will you build here?

Over what was destroyed.

[manufactured]

Personally, I'm not looking to build anything just yet. If anything at all. For now I'm content to observe. To see what things make of themselves.

[downswing]

Like historians or cravens.

[manufactured]

Neither.

[downswing]

Then, find purpose.

[manufactured]

I never said I don't have one. It's hardly my fault that you enjoy putting words in my mouth.

[downswing]

What is it? Your purpose.

[manufactured]

Tell me why it matters to you, first.

[downswing]

Only to understand.

[manufactured]

And yet from the sound of it, you've already made whatever discernment you're going to make regarding such things.

[downswing]

Fault of temper. Speak.