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// Cadence  
// Story: Cadence 
// by memphisgurl 
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Dear Princess Celestia,

It's the never-ending, unexpendable search for finding out what can't be found out. Essentially looking into the ancient dictionary for the true definitions of peace, war, life, death, love, hate. To control the pulse of the ancient heart of our knowledge. Stop it's arrhythmia, steady it's irregular heartbeat. 

And yet millennia of efforts have been in vain, whoever touches that heart even in the purest attempt to restore cadence comes out with blood on their hooves. Each time they brush over the heart of knowledge, they agitate the rhythm of the pulse even more. 

Trial and error. 

Trial and error. 

Trial and error. 

After so much trial and error, isn't it time to realize that success is futile?

These fundamentals cannot be taught by a teacher, they can only be learned by a student. They cannot be written down to be understood by the next one to come around, brush off the cracked leather spine and read. 

The definition of truth is perceived differently by all who know it. 

What is love, many have asked?

Why, the dictionary says:

a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another living being. 

a feeling of warm, personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend. 

affectionate concern for the well-being of others. 

strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything. 

What do I say?

Love is when you are moved to feel something. Something so wonderful it fills you up from head to toe with golden liquid and you just want to stay that way forever. It's isn't passion, it isn't giving or taking, whatever might be said. It's feeling. The ability to feel deems you the ability to love. The untempered cadence. That is the truth. The truth about the truth. 

What is life?

Scientist: Life is when an organism has the ability to have function, for example, eat and digest objects, reproduce, maneuver, and perceive it's surroundings.

Me: Life is all about actions and reactions. Learning to change and grow through events that occur as you get older. It's all about gathering clay and sculpting something from it. Accepting the irregularity or achieving cadence, or both. That too is the truth about the truth. 

What is peace?

Peace is the opposite of war. 

Wrong? Yes. Right? Yes. 

Peace is believing that things will get better, and in return, making them so. It's the first breath of fresh air after spending ages rotting away in a cell. Peace to the world is Equestria unscathed by war. To you and me, it's our cadence. And that's all there is to say about that. 

You don't have to agree with me. I only meant to spark these thoughts within you. So that you can finally determine what love, life, and peace mean to you and stop relying on what you've been told. Students must be teachers. Teachers must listen to the students. The world must listen to what it has to say. 

That is the meaning, that is the truth about the truth, the recipe to cadence and the cure for the heart of knowledge. That is...

Bravery. 

Honesty. 

Philosophy. 

And the list goes on eternally. 

Everything is what you make it.  

Forever your faithful student,
Princess Twilight Sparkle