Not
everyone of the generation of the destruction clung to the memory of how things
were. Many people did and they were miserable because they could not adapt to
the new reality but there were others who hadn’t been served well by the false
notions of progress and superficial happiness of consumption that was unreasonable
and unsustainable. There were some who celebrated the destruction because there
were aware of the lies and had always struggled against them but their efforts
seemed futile until the destruction. The destruction was the great revealer of
what was important and what wasn’t. Subsequent to the destruction, it was
necessary to build a new foundation of principals and security. Those who
experienced the freedom offered by the destruction adapted well and quickly
found meaning as they engaged to establish the new foundation. They also
felt a sense of satisfaction in their accomplishments as opposed to a sense of
loss for what had been destroyed. For many, the destruction lifted
a burden from their shoulders and cleared their schedules that previously kept them from
what was truly important. Those that were saddened were the same who had been,
prior to the destruction, preoccupied with avoiding the emptiness of the world
they had built, incorrectly believing that they needed to continue to build and build
and build upon what they already built so that they could outpace the emptiness not
realizing that no matter how much they filled the world with their ideas that it would still be empty. Their ideas were an insatiable cancer that caused the emptiness and so the emptiness grew until the
peak of emptiness was reached, the peak beyond which it could be sustained and the destruction naturally emerged as a consequence. Eventually, those
people succumbed to the secondary destruction, which was more subtle in that those people eventually just disappeared. They couldn’t
reconcile what the destruction revealed about themselves with what they wanted to believe. Before they could create their own truths by merely wanting to believe,
but ultimately, the truth of the destruction arrived and dealt a justice that was
truly blind and also cruel and without mercy because it didn't care about anything and just was. Mostly those that
were willing to face an uncertain future remained together with those that were always uncertain. They simply focused on what could be done in the
moment finding that they stumbled upon many moments of peaceful happiness along
the way and they found that sufficient to continue on.
