>>543684218
I wish to live so long that every soul I have ever loved, and will ever love, turns to dust before I even notice their absence. To endure through centuries until grief no longer visits me, only the memory of its shadow. I wish to outlast the world’s heartbeats. To see the rise and ruin of mankind repeated like a prayer that forgets its meaning. I want to feel everything there is to feel, I want to suffer every pain there is to endure. To stand upon the tenth resurrection of civilization and laugh, not out of joy, but because I still remember the first. And when the sun swells and devours the earth, when even memory itself begins to melt, I will still be here, whispering that absurd, sacred truth: that life, once eternal, becomes its own mockery.