I'll teach you the magic in the soul. I will let you eat the forbidden fruit.
But there is a reason you were not meant to eat from that tree. You have to suffer to make this life worth anything. Knife-cutting suffering. Wake-up-in-the-middle-of-your-sleep-crying suffering. Because then, my darling, you will know what joy is. And how it smells and what it tastes like...what it feels like to know joy. It's all a trade-off.
Did I choose to suffer? Perhaps subconsciously? I like to think that I did. That I had the courage to take the fruit from the tree and to know that there is life on the other side of the Garden of Eden.
It took me a long time to understand that. That to suffer truly is joy in the end. It's true, but you don't know that when you are just trying to make it to the other side...to the place where it doesn't hurt.
And then your world opens up and you remember...
You are alive.
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