Dec. 31st, 2005

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New Years Eve Reflections: Over the last year, did things go pretty much as you'd expected or planned, or did your life take a significant, unexpected turn? Overall, was it a good year or one that you want to put behind you as fast as you can?

"About half an hour later--or it might have been half a hundred years later, for time there is not like time here--Lucy stood with her dear friend, her oldest Narnian friend, the Faun Tumnus, looking down over the wall of that garden, and seeing all Narnia spread out below. But when you looked down you found that this hill was much higher than you had thought: it sank down with shining cliffs, thousands of feet below them and trees in that lower world looked no bigger than grains of green salt. Then she turned inward again and stood with her back to the wall and looked at the garden.

"I see," she said at last, thoughtfully. "I see now. This garden is like the stable. It is far bigger inside than it was outside."

"Of course, Daughter of Eve," said the Faun. "The further up and the further in you go, the bigger everything gets. The inside is larger than the outside.""
The Last Battle


I think my life took a very sudden unexpected turn when the train did the same.

And then my life rather ended.

But I’m not certain it was really last year. Time doesn’t matter anymore. Not for me. Sometimes I think I must have left that world, left the Shadowlands, decades ago. And sometimes I think it can’t have been more than a few days ago.

It doesn’t make sense.

It doesn’t have to anymore, either, though.

My life now—well, existence, maybe is better—but it’s the best anything can be, I think.

It doesn’t hurt to die. It just hurts to know that you have to wait to see some people you love again. But dying didn’t hurt.

I’m home.

I don’t know that there’s anything more important than that.

I don’t know that there’s anything more to say than that.

Was it a good year?

Come walking with me, and see what I see.

Tell me how it can be anything else but good.

As far as I’ve seen, it only gets better.

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