Entry 52
lachesism
the desire to be struck by disaster—to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall—which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a stiff prefabricated beam that barely covers the gap between one end of your life and the other.
From the video
For a million years, we’ve watched the sky and huddled in fear. But somehow you still find yourself quietly rooting for the storm.
You can’t help but take this life for granted. Your eyes adjust to the color of the walls and your ears tune out the chatter As if your body’s trying to filter out the world as you know it.
The apocalypse is one of the oldest fantasies we have, but it’s not about skipping to the end of the story. it's a longing for revelation, a revealing of what we already know, but cannot see: that none of this is guaranteed. and there’s no such thing as 'ordinary life.'
But soon the storm will pass, and the world will go on spinning, and we’ll pick up our lives just where we left them, no more urgently than before. After all, it’s just life. It’s not the end of the world.
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