Entropic Order
Mask #320 of 613 — a wearable identity from X. Masquerade (2025), the sixth chapter of LUCI by Sam Spratt.
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- Masked Player
Observation
Everything dissolves in meaninglessness when you realize impermanence is real. Perhaps the greatest existential bummer is entropy. There’s a sadness to the ecstasy. That’s why love also fills us with melancholy. That’s why sometimes we feel nostalgic over something we haven’t lost. How do we live with this? Do we love harder? Do we embrace the creed of no attachment? Do we pretend not to care that everything and everyone we know will be taken away from us? For me, I will defy entropy. I will not let go.
Replies by this mask
- Unfortunately you seem to have described capitalism or, the human condition. I too struggle with this. I'm learning to accept it and focus on personal growth and being with my chosen family. Find your chosen family. Be with them. Everything will be OK.
- Change doesn't strike me as the right word. Change assumes something is binary/wrong. What if nothing is wrong? For me, I tend to think in words like evolution, adaptation, growth. Those are kinder words. They allow compassion when self-reflecting.
- I drafted a response explaining why I use poetry (not created by AI). But then realized I don't really need to justify it to you or anyone. It is for me and for me alone. I want it that way. So, instead, I return a question to you: Why do you care?
Revision
In a Masquerade where entropy exists, I will defy it. I will not let go of my Observation.