Tragedy is a requirement of life.
Tragedy is inherent to life, it is all around.
It's hard to get perspective on the grand reality with such short-sightedness. I have short-sightedness.
Everything has been leading up to this moment. This is true of every moment.
What subtle things are going on the influence the rudders of our lives and guide us to unfamiliar seas? Seas that toss and turn, rent and wave, pummelling our hulls while we feverishly shovel briney water, all the time keeping our attention on our ship, trying to save our vessel.
Not with much awareness of the nature of the seas - no idea of the origins of the waves, the mechanisms of the storms - blaming ourselves for the volume of water that piles up relentlessly.
A break in the clouds! The water evaporates, the storms cease - we breathe easier, until the final storm comes and drives us surely against the floating iceberg, until our ships break up and become the sea, and begin battering countless more ships in seas across the universe.
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