Elden Ways, Society

These Injuries

Quickly ushered in symptoms of old age.

The woman figured out that maybe if she was tricked into giving up her youth’s ghost through despair to the Crone, that somehow the Crone would get to take her youth and run away with it as her own.

So the woman fought to stay aware and maintain her claim – although why she had to keep fighting for her own right of ownership of her soul’s being joined to this body through birth was still unknown.

Her purpose here must be significant, somehow.

In fact, every human and creature’s existence here was significant.

But many forces were trying to dumb them all down by the toils of struggle and hardship and turn them against each other.

Such behaviors from these forces indicated symptoms of propagated madness, but the continuous barraging pummeling of hatred’s overwhelming destabilization between kin, community, and country kept fresh the stench of feverish violence and resultant fear of the truth.

It was no wonder why so many avoided awareness and stayed complacent.

False messages promised, “If you stay still, maybe we won’t eat you” – to the amassed and corraled together bleating lambs for the slaughter.

Altered States, Society, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense, The Shower Accident 11/14/25

Catching Up With Falling Down

She was hungry

And her neck and head hurt.

Getting up hurt,

Staying up hurt.

Thinking hurt.

Needing love and yearning burt.

Wanting hurt.

Not having hurt.

Lack of any options hurt.

Striving now felt pointless.

Purposeless.

Her father warned depression could come from concussion.

But that wasn’t why she hurt.

She hurt because the accidents hurt her and she couldn’t have what her soul and heart wanted because they hurt her.

She couldn’t reclaim her self determination’s independence or feel free – only disepowerment.

She couldn’t have tbe man she wanted who reawakened her to things long buried.

She couldn’t have the dreams that had kept her vital despite setbacks.

She was being rendered obsolete to society not just from arbitrary age bias, but because she couldn’t perform on the treadmill, any.more.

She was becoming irrelevant even to herself because she could no longer single-handedly provide for her family’s – or even now, her own – survival.

Hyde's Bride, Society

Remember When?

“If we were lucky, someone would come by on horseback and ask if we had any mail to send?

Remember when we had to travel great distance through weather to town if we didn’t have this option?

And then, that letter had higher chances of getting lost or interfered with?

So why, now – with the internet and phone networks allowing us to reach each other in less than a minute in nearly any part of the world – is it even harder to directly communicate?”