Aveline

foreword

Foreword

Love is a beautiful thing. Codependency is not. Falling in love is something next to magical, but a can't-live-without-you, can't-breathe-without-you type of love is ultimately catastrophic.

One person cannot be your everything. You cannot live a life wherein your sole existence is defined by somebody else's. Because the truth of the matter is that human life is a finite, fleeting thing. Just as soon as it comes, it goes.

Hindu's believe in a concept called maya, which translates to "that which is not". Maya means illusion; an incorrect perception of reality. This comes with an attachment to the physical world, to the finite, to the ephemeral.

The only person who will truly be there for you, is you.

You are enough; you have always been enough.

Synopsis

Once there lived a girl who so loved the world she sacrificed herself to save it, simultaneously restoring balance and harmony and bringing about peace to a land overwrought with bloodshed.

"There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced."

L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside

Epigraph

"My ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me. These senses are the fruits of a lifetime of longing, longing to be rescued, to be completed. Just as the skirt needs the wind to billow, I'm not formed by things that are of myself alone. I wear my father's belt tied around my mother's blouse, and shoes which are from my uncle. This is me. Just as a flower does not choose its colour, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free, and to become adult is to become free."

-'Stoker'