The Physics of Happiness

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Somewhere in time, the Survivor was happy. The body felt as light as a feather, and even poverty seemed fine. The world glittered like play.

That lightness came from faith, and love kept it alive.

The Survivor knows faith and expectation are not the same. Expectation has conditions; faith is the floor of the world. So when faith breaks, it isn’t the heart that collapses first—it’s the body. Pain surges through every limb, and a shock arrives like the universe has been erased.

From then on, the Survivor lives on the energy of destruction. Even if everything is smashed, even if everything is burned down to ash, the wound does not soften. After the ash, what remains is only the sensation of a world that has fallen through.

And so the Survivor chooses to learn. Not how to abandon faith—

but how to keep faith from killing the Survivor.

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