We haven't had any communication in a while...
we haven't communicated in a long time.. and it's given me
time I needed to think. Remember when u said we should live with each other and be unhappy... remember you said we should live miserably together so we could be happy ? that I spent so long pouring myself into that offer trying to make it work. But a friend took me to the most amazing place the other day. One day a friend took me to the world On The Most Magical Place It's called the Augusteum. It's called Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains.
When the barbarians came, they trashed it along with everything else.
The
great Augustus, Rome's first true great emperor... The great Augustus, Rome's first true great emperor
... how could he have imagined
that Rome... the whole world, as far as he was concerned, would one day be in ruins ? During the dark ages, someone came in here and stole the emperor's ashes. In the 12th century, it became a fortress of the Carolino family... A fortress of the Lorinno family then a bullring. They stored fireworks in here after that. Nowadays, it's used as a bathroom for the homeless...
Now it's a homeless toilet so u
better watch ur step going down. It's one of the quietest and loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up around it over centuries. The city has grown around it for centuries It feels like a precious wound... like a heartbreak u won't let go of...like a heartbreak u won't let go of ... because it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same, David. David Settle for living in misery... because we're afraid of change, because we are afraid of things crumbling to ruins, then I looked around in this place, at the chaos it's endured...
I looked around here to see
the way it's been adapted, burned, pillaged...
then found
a way to build itself back up again, and I was reassured.
Then I'm relieved
Maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic. Maybe my life hasn't been so
bad
It's just the world that is... and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it
. The only thing to be careful of is the thought of escaping this life. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Even in this eternal city, even in this eternal city, the Augusteum showed me. ..Auguston made me understand that we must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation.
Both of us deserve better than staying together...
because we're afraid
we'll be destroyed if we don't.
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