Being and Becoming

The difference between being and becoming lies in change, but humans have a knack, or evolutionary “advantage” to adapt to change. That means our fundamental nature intrinsically trivializes change, or at least attempt to by gaslighting us until we fail, give up, not in the sense of giving up on life but rather giving up on living.

The next question arises in what it means to give up on life versus what it means to give up on living. As much I want to say that there is no difference, there probably is.

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Her Love moved to anticipation.
She shifted Her Gesture
around the timid, velvet –
Softness – a Tenderness gently welled Her;
Her Sweetness, Her Silence was better
than laughter,
memories,
desire,
lust.