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  • Onism.

  • You are here.

  • You were lost at first, but soon began sketching yourself a map of the world,

  • plotting the contours of your life.

  • And like the first explorers,

  • sooner or later you have to contend with the blank spaces on the map.

  • All the experiences you've never had.

  • The part of you still aching to know what's out there.

  • Eventually these questions take on a weight of their own,

  • and begin looming over your everyday life.

  • All the billions of doors you had to close in order to take a single step forward.

  • All the things you haven't done and may never get around to doing;

  • all the risks that may or may not have been real;

  • all the destinations that you *didn't* buy a ticket to;

  • all the lights you see in the distance that you can only wonder about;

  • all the alternate histories you narrowly avoided;

  • all the fantasies that stay dormant inside your head;

  • everything you're giving up, to be where you are right now;

  • the questions that you wrongly assume are unanswerable.

  • It's strange how little of the universe we actually get to see.

  • Strange how many assumptions we have to make just to get by,

  • stuck in only one body, in only one place at a time.

  • Strange how many excuses we've invented to explain why so much of life belongs in the background.

  • Strange that any of us could ever feel at home on such an alien world.

  • We sketch monsters on the map because we find their presence comforting.

  • They guard the edges of the abyss, and force us to look away

  • so we can live comfortably in the Known World,

  • at least for a little while.

  • But if someone were to ask you on your deathbed

  • what it was like to live here on Earth,

  • perhaps the only honest answer would be,

  • "I don't know. I passed through it once, but I've never really been there."

Onism.

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オニズム。あなたが体験する世界の少なさへの気づき (Onism: The Awareness of How Little of the World You'll Experience)

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    Amy.Lin に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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