The post-nihilism engagement

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We spend our entire lives imagining that our true love is out there somewhere, we always keep one foot out the door, waiting and searching for that person who will finally tell us we have been found.

We are social animals. We stand out on this planet because we created norms, rules, expectations. We live a life full of clichés between physical solitude and the one that relentlessly permeates the mind with our subconscious interlocutor.

Now all these rules are being rewritten faster than I am able to assimilate, I come to fear an existential stumble, for despite having learned to get up and appreciate the value of the fall, now I have too much to lose if I fall.

Living alone, outside the boundaries, may have been a liberating experience for me, but living without limits is an egoic free fall from which I am ready to pull the parachute while I use my judgment to appreciate the view in your company, perhaps until the ride comes to an end.

Ephemeral and temporal, that is the nature of things, of the universe. So allow me to be your companion in observing the passage of time until the end of our days.

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Laura Esteves

Laura Esteves

Laura Esteves builds worlds with words, and dismantles the ones that already exist. She writes about what hurts, what transforms and what refuses to be forgotten. She writes about love, identity and the systems that insist on defining us.

She believes literature is the only place where truth doesn't need permission. Her texts are born from the certainty that every story told with courage is an act of freedom; for whoever writes and whoever reads.