Dear David,
We haven’t had any communication in a while, and it’s given me
time I needed to think. Remember when you said we should live with each other
and be unhappy so we could be happy? Consider it a testimony to how much I love
you that I spent so long pouring myself into that offer, trying to make it
work. But a friend took me to the most amazing place the other day it’s called,
The Augustium. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the
Barbarians came they trashed it along with everything else. The Great Augustus
Rome’s first true great emperor. How could he have imagined that Rome, the
whole world as far as he was concerned, one day would be in ruins. It’s one of
the quietest and loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up around it over
centuries. Feels like a precious wound, Like a heartbreak you won’t let go of
cause it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same David. Settle for
living in misery because we’re afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins.
Then I looked around in this place at the chaos it’s endured. The way it’s been
adapted, burned, pillaged, and found a way to build itself back up again…and i
was reassured. Maybe my life hasn’t been so chaotic, It’s just the world that
is. And the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. ruin is a gift.
Ruin is the road to transformation. Even in this eternal city. The Augustium
showed me that we must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation.
Both of us deserve better than staying together because we’re
afraid we’ll be destroyed if we don’t.
Liz,
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