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His eyes are beautiful, intense.

You lose yourself in them, drown yourself in the brilliant, golden eyes that will never arise in your own race, not with ten thousand more DNA mutations. And then you’re pulled out, gasping, slammed back to reality by his words, by the sound of cold steel, tempered with a touch of moonlight.

“Tell me,” he says, each word staccato, piercing.

“T-t-tell you w-w-what?” you ask, your voice shivering, breaking against the sheer force of his personality. You’ve never thought yourself a weak person — well, generally speaking, at least — but all he needs to do is stand there and his aura almost forces you to your knees.

“Tell me,” he says, and it’s harsher in its repetition. “About what it means to be here. Tell me what your life is worth.”

And confronted with that, what can you say? What excuse do you conjure up for your failings, what answers do you offer that will console this god?

What proof, when confronted with the infinite, with a god, perhaps the God, do you use to justify yourself?

Date: 2010-12-11 10:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] streetnights.livejournal.com
I thought I'd do something a little different, and see if maybe people would be interested in a bit of audience participation. I'm curious what people have to say about what their personal meanings of life/raisons d'etre/reasons of existing are; here's my answer:

I've always walked the road that would expand my horizons. I've always done the thing that would teach me new skills and lead me to new places. I've moved five times in ten years, I've taken crazy expensive trips to foreign cities just to see what they're like there, and I'll never say no to a road-trip to anywhere, at any time.

I live to learn, and that's my justification.

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I'm curious what your answers are!
Edited Date: 2010-12-11 11:44 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-12-12 12:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fortitudehigh.livejournal.com
I think that I'm similar. I live to learn new things and to try to be a better person and to do my best to make a positive difference in other people's lives.

Date: 2010-12-14 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] streetnights.livejournal.com
-nods- I think that's really admirable!

Date: 2010-12-12 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wyrdfishes.livejournal.com
Intense! I like it. :D

Date: 2010-12-14 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gaea-rising.livejournal.com
Short but quite intense; it definitely leaves more questions than answers.

Date: 2010-12-14 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] streetnights.livejournal.com
Answers are hard, I think, to all the questions worth asking!

Date: 2010-12-14 06:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] locknkey.livejournal.com
Nicely done. :)

Date: 2010-12-14 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lawchicky.livejournal.com
Wow- this was really deep.

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