Mysteries and secrets are different, young Spike. A mystery is something I can savor. It is not so much kept from me as it is simply not within my knowledge, or in some way beyond my knowledge. A mystery is a beautiful thing. A secret is an artificial thing, kept from me. A secret is a lie.

-Celestia
Ageless, or Celestia Plays Dice With the Universe
Chapter XIII - How can they meet us face to face Until We Have Faces?

You know when you think about something, and it makes sense in context, but then you think about it out of context.
And it makes zero sense?
Well this blog post is going to be a running compilation for whenever I'm struck by those moments.

He opened a cabinet door in his chest and removed his ice covered ticker. The chaos bug duly ignited and thawed it out for him.

-Discord, Friendship is Scaleless, Chapter 21

Celestia is like a kindergarten teacher. She is surrounded every day by smaller people who adore her for her beauty, intelligence, sense of justice and fair play. But she is also desperate for someone, anyone, who is an adult and is willing to share her interest in damn near everything, and who is willing to hold/be held and cuddle her as she wanted to do with her charges.

This came from Your Human and You (YHaY): I am not Sparticus, Chapter 3: A bird in the hand...
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I recently (less than an hour ago) realized that not only is my motivator fear, but everything I do in life falls into two categories.
1. Things I am afraid not to do
2. Things I do to distract me from that fear

It makes me wonder how many people live life like this, and how to fix it.