we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!! we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!
the ancient (Homeric and tragic) Greek concept of fate was that a beginning was fated to happen, and eventually it would reach a fated end. Anything in between those points? Fair game. See: Poseidon delaying Odysseus’s journey home and throwing as many storms at him despite the fact Odysseus was fated to return. See also: Calypso holding Odysseus captive on her island and not wanting to let him leave, despite the fact he was fated to return home. See also: Thebes being ruled by Jocasta, Oedipus and Creon as equals- that wasn’t in the prophecy! Oedipus didn’t save Thebes from the sphinx because he was fated to, he was only fated to make it to Thebes at some point to marry Jocasta.
EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT YOUR BEGINNING AND YOUR ENDING IS FAIR FUCKING GAME TO DO WHATEVER























