Settle for living in misery because we're afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins.
Then I looked around in this place, at the chaos it's endured the way it's been adapted, burned, pillaged then found a way to build itself back up again, and I was reassured--Maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic. It's just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
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Even in this eternal city, the Augusteum showed me that we must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation
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