WANDER
'Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)⠀
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To wander does not necessarily mean to be lost. The experience of time slipping away can create the impression of absence, while in reality presence was never interrupted. This paradox, being there and not there at once, unfolds in moments when consciousness drifts, suspended between wakefulness and dream.
Time continues its irreversible passage. What is lived cannot be retrieved, and in its wake arises a quiet melancholy. Yet within this melancholy lies also an awareness: that even in states of half-presence, existence leaves its trace, fragile but undeniable.
