A Metamorphosis Interrupted
"I don’t belong there anymore. That identity of belonging left me a long time ago. And now, here, I don’t even have a name to possess. What a ludicrous irony! I left them to reach here, but I never reached a place where I truly belong. That existential crisis between a necessity and craving is strange… I abandoned the homogeneity of my existence in order to shed my scales and create a new one, but I lost both in the midway. A metamorphosis interrupted… So the question is: why did I pull out of there in the first place? That’s an essay of a research paper. Just scratching the bygone wound and making it bleed doesn’t make any difference. That land where I belong and love is no more than a beautiful illusion for me. And the land where I came is the reality where I should accept myself and move on. But neither of them works out. The final truth is an inconsistent reality — a hanging bridge — where one day, the resonance of nostalgia could break…! Inspired by a famous quote, I could ...