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Demark again

We all know about Demark and his search for knowledge and meaning in life. After all, he spent a month in a temple which was huge and often visited and learned theoretical knowledge about life, religion and unexplored matters.

He did learn many of the religions and the ways to get blessings or punishment. The ways to get inner strength. Demark possibly the only surviving member of the family hoped there was a world after death and wished he could meet them. By then, I mean his family and relatives, and all the people he knew were kind-hearted and supported him through his journey. 

I promised you I would be by your side.
For the longest time
But it didn't last.
Didn't mean for it to be a lie.

Grief didn't fill up Demark as he fully realized that he wasn't meant to be staying as his family made a choice. They had sacrificed themselves for a purpose, a meaning. His becoming sad was to pay disrespect to their choice.

A part of him was childishly angry as he remembered that his parents had made a promise that they would always be together. He expected or imagined attached to the false promise that they would be together always, in life and death. Perhaps they would in death if some of his religious textbooks were right. But never for the whole living period of his father and mother would they be together.

That thought made him sad. But he felt he was still needed on earth. He still had a purpose to fulfil, which he hadn't known about it yet. He was searching for a purpose, something that defines every why when a person doesn't know how. And eventually, the person with a why finds a how. A person learns to live even in the hardest circumstances.

Demark wanted to be something. He wanted a purpose in his life. He wanted to give value to the pain he was feeling. Something that makes it worth it.

Sometimes the most important thing we have been searching for was with us all along. We just have to open our eyes a bit more.

Is it someone we know or is it something we do? The actions that we choose to take. Do these things give this value to pain? Do these actions add value to pain?

The surrounding may be a paradise that everyone searches for. But will finding paradise give the meaning people are searching for? Or will the process of searching give meaning?

We all have concerns, whether it is the food people want now or the food they want later. We have a strong urge to survive, whether it is the urge to serve oneself or to serve one's own families. Is it the lack of food that makes people desperate to choose an option?

Demark was contemplating all of these thoughts. And it was getting clear that people and raw materials influenced the decisions of a person. The security of food and water and family and society, all were important for the survival of a human being.

The wind blows and so travels the feather according to the will of the earth. Heat produced and different temperatures above the earth's surface is responsible for the slight breezes or the heavy gales.

There is a saying in your dimension saying "In Rome do as the Romans do." Adapting to the situation as required by the circumstances.

But with ever-changing circumstances what remains in the hearts and minds of the people? What gives a common meaning to the people? What gives that identity during ever-changing circumstances?

The identity that doesn't change. A famous man, in your dimension once said that there are three principle values in life. The most important of these is how we respond to the situation. Or in other words how we interact with the situation, our response.

Demark felt heavy-hearted. But he knew to continue to grieve would not be respecting the lives of those so passed.

The stars were shining brightly and the light reflected an image of the person as well as the river to which he was near. Demark listened closely to the running water and remembered his family's words clearly.

And it was clear in his mind. He remembered the smiles and the times of difficulty. He would strive to achieve it. It was meant it be. And he firmly decided to affirm their deaths as martyrs.

Silva had won the long war. But in no way was Demark's identity affected. He had a purpose before and he had a purpose now and it was to enhance his understanding of nature, the environment and human beings.

After all the deeper parts of him, the inner thoughts and paradigms had told him that though part of his initial purpose was also including his family, the deep sadness and meaninglessness would go away or be defined. As he reflected deeply he understood the inner workings of nature and in some way, he felt healed.

Though scars might remain and fibrosis leads may lead to emotional damage that might never be repaired.

"I will calm down." He said. And then as the old man and his fellow acquaintances let go. He went to the house which was now abandoned and no longer in the fire. He looked at the two storied building and went into the building like he did in the temple more than a decade ago.

Faced with similar uncertainty as he did when he went into the temple but with the similar courage.

He had a terrible thought. That the priest would come again and lash out the monstrosities from those oval portals. And he would have to die without the chance to live on earth, as his parents would have wanted him to. He was scared he would have to die earlier than expected, that he wouldn't have the chance for obtaining the meaning of life from his deeds.

But he mustered up his courage and went in as he decided and contemplated that his parents would have come to see him if he was in similar circumstances.