(194) magid of this broken world

Sep 02, 2007 19:22

"The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon.

He thinks that the life he used to life is gone. It hasn’t been that long but he can just barely remember how life used to be anymore. He doesn’t remember a time when he wasn’t worried about others and insane practices. When there weren’t people depending on him and sleeping on the sand.

It just seems like that other life barely exists even though he’s spending all his energy to get back to it. He doesn’t know what he’s fighting to get back to so badly. He doesn’t know who he’s fighting to be anymore. Not that he’s really sure who he was ever fighting to be, not before the island either.

This place makes everything else just fade away into an oblivion he barely cares about anymore. He just keeps going because he has to. He has to have something to do, something to strive for. He will be that person for these people. He will be the one who sacrifices anything he can to save them because it’s who he is, he thinks it’s probably who he’ll always be.

But he still doesn’t know what he’s fighting for. He lost it somewhere along the way.

Muse: Jack Sheppard
Fandom: LOST
Word Count: 198
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