On Fire.

“He imagined the story of her body: it was lost among millions of other bodies until the day a look of desire settled on it and drew it forth from the nebulous multitude; then the number of such looks increased and set afire this body, which ever since has been moving through the world like a torch; now is its time of radiant glory, but soon the looks will start to grow fewer, the light to dim little by little, until the day when this translucent, then transparent, then invisible body will pace the streets like a small itinerant non-being.”

~Identity by Milan Kundera

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But if you're lucky... and I mean, blessed with the extremest of fortune... you'll realize that though a hundred eyes may have burned in you a torch to light your way during times of darkness, self-loathing, confusion, and disenchantment, that really all it takes is one pair of eyes to set ablaze the divine and unfathomable depth of fuel inside of you and give light to, not just you, but the rest of the world.

Here's to finally needing just one pair of eyes to really see me.