Life
For the longest instant, I watch her.
I watch her as she meanders about the place she works, the place she lives, looking at everything.
The finest details of her world, as though they were not prevalent before.
Finally she returns to me, and nods.
I know what this means.
The simple recognition that while we may spend an eternity young even this eternity must eventually end.
So I take her hoof in mine,
and I end this eternity to return to the next.
As the world comes rushing back, she seems startled by the experience, but quickly shakes it off.
"So...that's...that's your world?" she asks.
"No, that is this world. That is every passing second in which we live, and breathe. We simply took the time to appreciate it better."
"I still don't understand how that's possible..."
"Nor do I, but does it truly matter? Perhaps it's better without an explanation."
"But everything has an explanation, or at least a reason."
"Not at all. Everything simply has a meaning."
"Wh- what do you mean?"
"Look at the world around us, filled with light, and color and sound and life. Can you explain any of that?"
"Well...light is a form of energy...and sound is the vibration through the air...and life...is..."
"No, Twilight, you are defining things, labeling things for a purpose of communication. Can you explain sound to the deaf? Or light and color to the blind? Or life to a stone? In our lives we take these labels for granted because we can experience them from our own perception. But what do they mean outside of us? Haven't you wondered?"
"Well...then what is the meaning of these things?"
"The meaning of anything is simply to give meaning to it's contrast."
"I...what?"
"Well truly the universe within itself is fairly meaningless, it has no...well, purpose. But the things within it give purpose and meaning to one another. There cannot be light without dark, or color without blackness. Sound without silence or silence without sound."
"So, what? The meaning of life is to define death?"
"No, death is a part of life. An invariable and inescapable end, but still a part of it. No the meaning of life is to define the lifeless, at least, in my eyes."
"In other words..?"
"We as life have the responsibility to give meaning to the entire rest of the universe. By acknowledging and appreciating the existence of that which cannot acknowledge and appreciate itself, we give it purpose. We give it meaning. For without us what is the point of a star, a galaxy, all of space and time? We are the only ones who can confirm that anything ever even happened in the whole of the universe. The stars and moon and sun depend on us just as much as we depend upon them, for our entire universe exists only in perfect balance to create us, Twilight, life, for we are truly what defines it. Just like our bodies to our minds."
"What do you mean, like our bodies?"
"The entire purpose of the body is to create a machine which supports the mind. Every system within us has the end goal of keeping out soul alive. This is why we are not our bodies, they our simply our vessel. Much like we are not a part of the universe...we are the universe. Existing within it as simply another arrangement of atoms and energy, the only difference is, that we can give purpose to ourselves."
Twilight continued to stare through his eyes, scrutinizing and studying all he had just said.
"So why tell me this?"
"Because you've seen what I can see. You've seen the potential of eternity, and chose to come back, as I have always chosen as well. But I want you to see why that decision must always be made, to allow the world to continue on. For as I may be better at observing and giving meaning to what is here, and now...
There will always be more.
And I owe it to everything.
To the wind and sun and rain.
To the stars, the sun, and the skies.
I owe it to all of the universe far greater than I could ever hope to be.
I owe all that which is lifeless...
a chance at life."
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3747799 i use thyme on most of my food!
Woah dude. Deep. <3
3745905 huh. Good point. I never really thought about that.
Very... Thought provocative. I like it... Very... Poetic. Nice. Pretty.
That's poetry if I ever saw it… bravo, good sir, bravo.
Small writing note: the last 7 paragraphs should all have an opening quote.
Love this story :)
That's way deep, dude. way deep.
Hey. That was nice,
This fic is interesting and thought provoking. I'm interested to see where "Cockwork" goes from here. Keep up the good work, 71NYL-5CR4TCH!
wow.
3753736
such story, much deep.
I think you meant 'are' here
I'm dumbstruck. For once, I can't actually write a lengthy comment about the story. There are no words in this language, nor any other that I know (none), that can fully encompass what I feel about this story right now.
This has to be the most deep, intricate, and straight up brilliant thing I have read in a long time. The writing, that M83 song, just everything. 71NYL-5CR4TCH, I don't even think it needs to be said, but here it is. You are a god damn genius.
Five Hearts:
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Five Moustaches:
An upvote, and a favorite. Good day.
Gahhhh! *Punches wall*
THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL NO WORDS COULD POSSIBLY FUCKING DESCRIBE IT!
Twenty out of five mustaches:
Thank you so much for being a very competent, and descriptive writer.
I've waded through a lot of shit trying to find stories like this; stories that speak to an ideal, represent something, or exist for the sole purpose of not having an purpose. It is stories like this that are truly great and should be the icons to which we compare our own works.
Fallout Equestria showed us what it means to be a hero in the form of a Small-Framed mare named Littlepip.
Cupcakes showed us that even in the happiest, brightest worlds, there are shadows that house our demons.
My Little Dashie demonstrated that love is not the unstoppable force or the immovable object, but will always survive regardless of the force striking it or the weight dropped on it.
Don't let assholes stop you from making your idea a reality. Unless you don't use proper grammar.
Stay frosty.
Welp, there goes my idea, and you've done it better than I would of anyway. It was really enjoyable. I had tossed this around the jury a few months ago and ended up putting it into a pile of crap including a badly idealized HIE fic.
One day, and this time I mean it, I'll have time to actually post a story.
Cash Back with ponies
3759148 NO! Bad pun.
Just showed up in updated stories list but no new chapter. I'm gonna go with locked chapter for editing/proof reading that will be revealed later?
O.K., I'm back. I took a break for lunch and went to the library to continue. Still a great story.
Mind blown.
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I have never looked at it that way.
This implies:
1) Everything has meaning.
2) Everything gives meaning to everything else.
3) "Meaning" is defined as the value and reason why we(aware concepts/things) appreciate the relative existence of something.
4) What is not,can not be contrast can't be appreciated and therefore doesn't have meaning until successfully contrast.so that its identified and possible to be named.
5)Meaning ≠ doesn't equal existence.
6) Everything that has meaning exist at least mentally.
7)Not everything that has the potential to exist has necessarily either a reason or a meaning.
8)Anything that can be contrast could exist. AKA anything is possible.
You sir by making me think, have made this fic more than worthy to be in my user page.
~Leonzilla
Every system within us has the end goal of keeping out soul alive. This is why we are not our bodies, they our simply our vessel
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God damn this story.. i fucking loved the concept of cashback, but wow, you've gone and completely reinvented it, and it's glorious.
This.. now this is an absolutely wonderful way to view the universe in whatever time and situation you are in.
Darkness is nothing but absence of light. Light is but an absence of darkness. Everything defines and gives meaning for its contrast. Existing is but the absence of nonexistence. Hate is the absence of love.
It is such an amazing and wide universe we live in.
Somebody has taken a philosophy course.