There are times in your life when some long forgotten lines read long ago come back to you, these came to me like a randomly floating bubble that bursts on your head, sometimes its pleasant and the little droplets burst forth and refresh and sometimes its glass, the shreds making you cringe ( you never know what its going to be :) )
Here goes...
The great oak tree had stood on a hill over the
One night, lightening struck the oak tree. Eddie saw it next morning. it lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into a mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an empty shell; its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside- just a thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest wind. The living power had gone; and the shape it left had not been able to stand without it.
Years later, he heard it said that children should be protected from shock, from their first knowledge of death, pain or fear. But these had never scarred him; his shock came when he stood very quietly, looking at the black hole of the trunk. It was an immense betrayal- the more terrible because he could not grasp what it was that had been betrayed. It was not himself, he knew, nor his trust; it was something else...
(Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged)
