Let's say, you did it. You beat the odds. You found that special someone who values you as you were always meant to be valued. The ache is gone and your "struggle", so to speak, is over. What then?
Do you forget that we're still here? As you lie at night, next to your lover, do you push thoughts of others' suffering away? Is it like a toothache, that is overwhelming in the immediacy of its presence, but forgotten when its source is excised?
Or will you remember? Solzhenitsyn said it is impossible for a warm man to understand one who is cold. You'll be warm, anon, but we're freezing in here. Will you still rail against all the injustice of the system, or when the wheel of fortune finally scoops your up will you enjoy the ride with the rest of them?
I don't want to be pretentious. I just want your attention and a serious answer. We know how no one who benefits from loaded dice takes umbrage with the unfairness of the game. Would you, anon?
I suppose those of us who ascend aren't allowed back. They can LARP, but they don't share our pain. A starving person can't bear to hear the sympathy of a fat man who dimly remembers his poverty. But will you cease to try and help us? Save your son from our fate? Protect your daughter from the influences that corrupt her gender?
I hope this don't get me flamed, I mean every word. I suppose I deserve what's coming.
tl;dr Does a pain that no longer applies to you still arouse as much sympathy for those who carry it, in its absence?
Do you forget that we're still here? As you lie at night, next to your lover, do you push thoughts of others' suffering away? Is it like a toothache, that is overwhelming in the immediacy of its presence, but forgotten when its source is excised?
Or will you remember? Solzhenitsyn said it is impossible for a warm man to understand one who is cold. You'll be warm, anon, but we're freezing in here. Will you still rail against all the injustice of the system, or when the wheel of fortune finally scoops your up will you enjoy the ride with the rest of them?
I don't want to be pretentious. I just want your attention and a serious answer. We know how no one who benefits from loaded dice takes umbrage with the unfairness of the game. Would you, anon?
I suppose those of us who ascend aren't allowed back. They can LARP, but they don't share our pain. A starving person can't bear to hear the sympathy of a fat man who dimly remembers his poverty. But will you cease to try and help us? Save your son from our fate? Protect your daughter from the influences that corrupt her gender?
I hope this don't get me flamed, I mean every word. I suppose I deserve what's coming.
tl;dr Does a pain that no longer applies to you still arouse as much sympathy for those who carry it, in its absence?
