Liber Caeli - Chapter 43

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They called me difficult before I was old enough to know the easier alternative.

At school, normal meant detecting invisible rules quickly enough that nobody had to explain them.

I was bad at that and good at noticing the rules were invisible.

For years I mistook exclusion for proof of superiority. That was loneliness wearing medals.

Then I mistook conformity for kindness. That was fear wearing manners.

Uranus became useful to me only as an image: a respectable planet with an indecent angle.

It did not ask permission to fit the diagram.

But planets pay no social cost. People do.

Freedom is romantic from the outside and expensive from inside the body.

Still, there are rooms in which the price of belonging is becoming absent from yourself.

Leave those rooms when you can.

And when you cannot, keep one private axis no committee can measure.