Euphoria

"I sense the time has come. I trust it now, much more, the sense. All the things I know and all the things I don't know are the same: they all abide by and reside in me. No words of wisdom, no advice. Let me make my own mistakes. Let sorrow, loss and lingering despair crush me to tears. I won't protect me from myself: that would be crueller still."

A chance encounter with a younger self prompts an unruly reflection on not just what lies ahead of this person who should be so familiar, and yet isn't at all, but also on what, if anything, it might mean now to be human. Euphoria may not be inevitable, but nor is it unattainable, after all...

EDEN miniatures are twelve texts from EDEN by FREI - a concept narrative in the here & now about the where, the wherefore and forever, first published online at EDENbyFREI.net.