in that which we call emotion, those feelings which I always took for granted, those which enriched my experience in life, even as those around me seemed more thought-oriented. But we were given both heart and mind, I decided, so why not develop both to their fullest potential?

I saw that the creator could reach whomever he wanted, even sinners. I saw that such grace made death itself illogical.

I wondered if the truth then revealed could be called logical at all.

The logical conclusion of life, is life.


////////Chapter Seventeen: Daybreak//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////so used to being broken in wallet and spirit, but I knew that I stood wealthy among men. Even when the tide of money would run low, I knew that I held something infinitely more important that could never be taken from me.

Tomorrow was something I’d always taken for granted; but, with self-awareness comes the knowledge that tomorrow is a new opportunity, and that tomorrow can always be better. Self-awareness is the ability to face the light even when it hurts, because that which hurts is that which cannot withstand the light; and therefore must eventually die, anyway.

So, what is the meaning of life?

The question is as philosophical as they come, not one prized by those who find no hope in tomorrow, by those who believe that they are an end unto themselves: their own god, or by those who treat the questions like cheap words and claim that answers don’t exist, who stall out and compromise before answers come together, who aren’t able to discover that the logical conclusion is reached where wisdom becomes nonsense, where the answer will not break under any future.

To discover