Feeling stymied and frustrated didn't serve me in much stead during our match. My edges lay undeveloped. My inside empty, and threatened by my adversary It was like a metaphor or something.
I sat up and stretched. This was unwinnable.
And then paused; well, yeah. Of course it was. That was the point.
I tilted my neck to one side, having a tiny epiphany. The content of it made me smile a moment. And so, having nothing to lose, and everything to gain, I asked.
"What is the meaning of life, then? What is the point?"
Death, seeing that I had abandoned our match mentally, also sat up. Setting his in-hand stone back into the bowl of dozens of other white beads just like it, replied in a quick intonation. Almost like a mantra; a verse.
"Life is what you make of it."
I laughed, in a explosively exasperated sigh.
"That was so anti-climatic and rote. Let me try.
It is uniquely ours, to squander and do whatever we like with it. When everything ends, the only person you need to make peace with is yourself. And so, only our own criteria is the one that comes to bear, at the end? Whether our lives are full and meaningful, or easy and hedonistic, is up to each individual person. The key is to find and develop your own values, and apply them in a way that you find fulfilling and meaningful. Yes?"
I couldn't say for sure, but it felt like my opponent was smiling behind their mask.
"That is a not-inaccurate way to phrase it."
I chuckled and nodded.
"I suspected that was what you were going to say. So. The meaning of life, is to give our lives meaning?"
My company shrugged.
"That's individually specific. But it stands to reason as a strong basis from which to build."
I nodded, staring at a board with a half-finished game. Smelling cherry blossom and tatami, and ears ringing from the deafening silence.
10:01 p.m. - 2015-01-08
Recent entries:
Tossi Propter - 2018-07-02
Summerscorch - 2018-07-02
Heartdesert - 2018-06-25
Elliptical - 2018-06-25
Back and Callback - 2018-06-18
My profile
Archives
Notes
Diaryland
Random
RSS
others:
As-I-know-it
Nicim
Breathe-Salt
Swordfern
Star-Brite
Swallowthkey
ATwoWayDream
HumHum
Secret-motel
AndWeBreathe
MovingSands
WeAteTheSea