there are few people that he trusts. he learned to carve apart his heart into zones of love and righteous hate. as the young Bull grew older, he shifted the zones to allow for liminal spaces of indifference.
somewhere along the way the young Bull went to sleep, only awakened by certain tastes, certain scents. leather, his kin dying, hedonism, his thirst.
he forgot about indifference and became a godhead in black and white, right and wrong, silence or song. the comparison began to kill, the dichotomy made him and his lovers ill.
integration of self is the hardest thing for some of us to achieve. liminal spaces are the spaces in which movement is actually most possible, where decisions haven't been solidified, where choices are effective rather than confined to the rules of what some people like to call reality.
there are few people that he trusts. indifference is different than acceptance. acceptance different than resignation. he wonders now in his higher state, holding Bull and Buffalo, Moon and Violent Healer, how much can he swallow and be faithful to the idea of himself that he has created?
Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.
Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere | @theliteraryjournals
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