The One Thing I've Been Aching To Say.

jebiwonkenobi:

One day a boy goes out to look for his father. He has a message: my brothers have gone crazyier. The world will end if you don’t come home. It looks like a lot of notes meant for absent fathers, and like most absent fathers, his isn’t answering. 

So he goes looking. The world seemed so tiny from above but on the surface everything is giant, giant trees and giant people. For the first time, he feels insubstantial. 

He spends a long while just watching, because his voice breaks things and his light hurts people. One day he finds a man who’s sad and lonely and drowning. The man, like all men, has an ocean inside of him, but his is dark and prone to storms. He asks the man a question and the man says yes, and the ocean is replaced by the sun. 

They walk and touch and feel. They fall in and out of love. They learn many things, but the boy is surprised to learn, under the harsh glare of his little brother, under the harsh glares of his little brother’s friends, that the most important lesson is the one his father whispered to him a long time ago, only half serious, mostly just teasing an irate Death: Love makes no mistakes.

(Source: wendigo)