The Blessings of Bitter Mercy - Part I

I wrote this, for my own amusement, after playing a game called Morrowind. A god in that talks about madness being a blessing of bitter mercy, and I decided to add two more to the list !! It was originally written about three years ago, after which I decided to embellish it a bit more for one of my best friends. This is the embellished one. =)

Since it’s a long one, I decided to break the bugger up into three sections, one for each blessing !!!!!


An Introduction and The First Blessing: Ignorance

All humans wish to live a utopian life; a life that is free from pain, despair and loss, a life that is defined by their own ideals…in other words, a life free from reality. Yet such a life can only exist in dreams, in books, in movies, in fantasies. The world we are born in can never allow us to be free from its reality; it is something that we all have to endure, no matter how hard, no matter how painful. Many people have more problems than joys. Many have about the same number of problems and joys. And some have more joys than problems, but it is human nature to ignore the joys and live with the problems, so ultimately, they have more problems. Net result, life is fraught with problems, and we need a blessing, a blessing of bitter mercy.

Life has presented many opportunities to escape from these realities. The three basic ones can be ignorance, madness and death.

Ignorance by far may seem the easiest one, as it is defined by the simple act of alienating ourselves from reality. Live the life ignoring all that you don’t’ like; basically living as a gargantuan water purifier. The only difference being, you ain’t purifying water mate !! However, the only problem is that reality will always find a way to drag us back into it, and thus, ignorance fails for the most part. And that, oh well, sucks !! As hard as you try to live life turning a blind eye to the thorns up your arse, those thorns are going to, come hell or high water, jump right up and prick you hard in the arse !! So…I guess ignorance is good, but only as a temporary solution !!