Tom asked me today what I do when a book that a don't want to end ends.
I told him I sometimes go back and read the beginning again. We always miss things in the beginning. Its fun to go back and see what they were.
He asked me what I do after that.
I said sometimes I read the end again, see if there's anything I missed there, anything else I should be thinking about as the story drifts from my mind.
What then, he asked.
I guess then I move on to the next book, I said.
Yeah, he said, that's what you have to do. It's a bummer, but you can't stay there forever.
He said that's one of the big things with which the main character in his book is struggling: the ability to walk away from those elevated moments, the ability to recognize when it's time to move on to the next thing, even if it's not at that same level, the ability to accept that it's ok that we don't always live like that, in those states, at those levels, that it's ok to come down and experience imperfection again. And not just ok. Good. Necessary. What makes it possible to elevate again, whenever that might be.
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