WXY 1

¹“Dad, are you religious?” ²“Yes.” ³“So you believe in god?” ⁴“Oh, I wouldn’t say that. ⁵I never really choose the things I believe. ⁶But I choose to be religious because I know that I must have faith, when I have nothing else.” ⁷“So god isn’t real? ⁸None of that stuff is true?” ⁹“It’s not always about what’s true, or false. ¹⁰It’s not that religion is true, or false, but it is powerful, my child, far more powerful than you could know.” ¹¹“But why, then, should there even be anything at all, instead of nothing?” ¹²“I don’t know. ¹³You can always ask why, my child, and to ask why is to be human, but matters of truths and causes are not so clear to me. ¹⁴Truths are true because they are, and I know that I am here today, the universe telling me its one truth. ¹⁵There is something because there is. ¹⁶As for nothing, well, nothing is here, too, right beside us. ¹⁷But today, there is something, and for that, I am grateful.” ¹⁸“That doesn’t make sense. ¹⁹So you will only ever know truth from your perspective? ²⁰Some things are true for everyone, like it’s true that the grass is green and the sky is blue and the clouds are made of water, right?” ²¹“Oh, I sure hope so, but it’s hard to know everything. ²²The universe doesn’t owe it to you to make sense. ²³Truth is a difficult thing, my child. ²⁴And yes, I’m sure there are many truths of the universe, but I can only wonder how magnificent they might be. ²⁵And I hope that I can know them someday, as I’m sure you do too, but we are only human. ²⁶But please, my child, remember that truth is not always good, or bad, it’s just there. ²⁷So you must do your best with what you are given.” ²⁸“But what am I given, dad?” ²⁹“Oh, a great many things. ³⁰You are a beautiful creation, more complex and intricate than you could know. ³¹But as far as truth goes, you are only given one. ³²You know it in your heart and in your soul, just as I know it, because it is true. ³³And it is certainly not an easy truth, because like you said, you can only ever know it from your perspective. ³⁴But as long as you are here, my child, the universe will be here, too, showing its face, so hold your truth close, because it is all that you will ever have.”