Tasneem Zaman Labeeb
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January 19, 2021 · 4 min read

Man who died to bloom

It was a direful afternoon in a small suburban town. The weather was of a humid atmosphere in the almost hidden yard where he was found dead. The yard reeked of wet drugs that the drug brokers left off (probably after a chase down by polices) and horse manure.

This is how he said his sayonara to the exhibited life that people actually celebrate till last breath and started this. Before his disappearance, he reassured himself that perennial furnace of his will to disappear in which nothing resists his desires to die, where even nothingness and gravitation lose their integrity and vanish before the so-called magic of living power.

Certain that people's gaze would revive the dead, that his hand laid upon matter would bring it to life, that stones would shudder at the dead touch,that every graveyard would blossom in a smile of the immortality of nothingness.

He had told himself:  'From the moment of his death on there will just be nothing but an eternal soothing spring, a dance of no wonders yet closed in wondering, and the end of all sleep-sleeps that escaped the awakening time.I have brought another fire: fire that burns all the happiness that made him lamentable, and raise the demigod in self-he wanted the gods from book to be descended into the very tombs. On their feet.

Whereas a thinker requires—to detach him from the world—enormous labor of uncomfortable introspection ending negativity towards expiration, the privilege of a flaw talks from the start a singular destiny. Vice-bestower of utmost solitude-offers the man marked out by it the excellence of an isolated condition. But he considered the invert:  he inspired himself with two contradictory sentiments –both ending with demise: disgust and admiration; his “failure” made him at once inferior and superior to the others; he does not accept himself, constantly justifies himself,  invents reasons, torn between shame and pride; yet-enthusiasts of  the fatuities of procreation—the conformists go with the herd. Misery to those who have no secrets! How could they divine the fetid advantages of the aberrations? Shall they remain forever the progeniture of nature, victims of their laws, nothing but human trees? That doesn’t bloom.

Since for him, there existed no ultimate criterion nor irrevocable principle nor bindings to live on, and no god but himself, what kept him from committing any and every crime?-like killing himself. So without any drama and as he wanted to flow and not resist, he selected to live this life.

 

But why he chooses to be a dog?

As a human, he realized that he began to go into oblivion (Not in a glossy way though), that moment when life became life's only obsession. He was paralyzed with thoughts-but as a dweller of the cosmological nothingness-he couldn't be aware of living -he lived -happy slave of the perpetual form other engenders, tends and idolize. But the dog character fancied him, no other creation without the feelings and which are limited -he, by all means, wanted to enjoy freedom.

He wanted to enjoy the delicacy of human life -but not the radiant nothingness of the decided nothingness which don’t accomplish human life at all-instead he just wanted to become a dog as a remedy to his mental paralysis. And actively, he also didn’t want to give any serious thought about what to become. To him, a clear-sighted person who understands himself,  explains himself, justifies himself and dominates his actions will never make a memorable gesture or well-thought decision about anything-anything that is important. And to him, clear sightness was dwelling on the vagueness of life. He took lessons from history, yet just to stand on the sideline as a spectator.

We  derive  our  power  from  our  forgetting  and  from  our  incapacity  to conceive  of  the plurality of simultaneous fates. No  one  could  survive  the instantaneous  comprehension  of  universal  grief,  each  heart  being  stirred only for a certain quantity of sufferings.

So, it’s why he wanted to be a dog. And he became.


Will be continued