Broken & Beaten

Gisele Magnin

Mar 2018 · LesbianMuses

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It is not in success or satisfaction that humans find solace, but in being broken and beaten to the point of having no will or strength to continue. Only then do we truly accept whatever fate has in store for us. Such was the life that Aria had led.

Maybe it was in this defeat that Aria truly had strength. Knowing that nothing she ever did would be enough for herself or the world. That survival was not a thing. That every moment she stepped outside, into a city, suburbs, or country, or chose to remain still, all was equally life-threatening.

Death could not be masked. And if it were meant to be cheated, it would be cheated. But even the most adamant “survivors” were often taken by tragedy at one point or another.

Sometimes even more than once. Like her mother, for example. Who had survived cancer three times, and died in a car wreck. What was the point of that?

Maybe, in this sense, Aria’s agony was her greatest blessing. For it gave her the power to look the Devil in the eye, with a form of nonchalance no one had ever mustered.

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