the generation of the destruction

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.