max-swell:

speakingwhentheworldsleeps:

You can never explain to your former faith that the water is fine. That you went past the forbidden gate, and entered the forbidden water, and it is good, and healing, and refreshing.

They have been told the water is not fine. The water is poison. The water will make you sick, make your bones turn brittle and your skin melt off.

But you cannot use your health as proof of their error. Because they have a new answer now: it was a slow poison all along and one day those who entered the water will die a painful, gasping death with the water as the cause.

And when no one dies from the water, you still cannot tell them its fine. Because there’s another answer, too: that the water will get you after your dead, that the consequences are invisible, incomprehensible, known only on the other side of life.

There will always be another answer for why the water is poison, even if there is no proof. So all you can do is immerse yourself in the water. Find healing in it. Recognize that all along the forbidden gate was lying to you. Even if no one comes with you.

This is an incredible metaphor. I’m using “come on in, the water’s great” as an apostate motto from now on. ❌