Traveling

"Abandonment of the world, renovation of the world, unlocking of the world, absorption into the world, absorption of the world. All more than the likes of us can handle. It's enough when we know what we're doing now and what we'll do for a little while after. Even when we know it won't even happen like that. It's okay that something new will come up - we can step from something familiar to something new. What we avoid is stepping between new things. That's when we fear we'll be lost."

"But a day comes when that's the only thing I want. To abandon my world and unlock some true one, absorb it even as I am absorbed, discover it is what was mine but now renewed. One and a half steps - or is it two and a half?"

"Either way a half. To break your leash is to find another. We plunge to hesitate again."

"Over something now worth hesitating about. But do we always?"

"Or smash to pieces."

"I have collected many tales of smashing over the years. You can't say they're more involved with the different ways to smash than the many hesitations. Especially considering how many plunges equate to hesitation along some other axis."

"But those are tales. When you find yourself about to hit all the places you should have stopped will line up behind one another in miniature, polished, in your mind. With you in the center of every place at once, falling like the floor had turned to paper. You will miss every facet of world."

"Heeding yours what won't I miss?"

"And yet you hesitate."

"Only if every step is hesitation. If every step is half a step interrupted by another half a step."

"Now you have it."

"And yet how far I've come. Hesitate enough and soon you're walking."

"But never running."

"Running happens too. Walk far enough and you'll see what makes you run."