theoppositeofprofound
The appeal of Valinor is not that you are healed and it’s happily ever after, it’s that you must heal forever and always reckon with what you have done and what has been done to you. How do you live with yourself when you can’t properly die? When even your afterlife is full of ghosts? You can’t escape or put it aside—you have to reach a peace with them, but that peace will always be a little tenuous. No one will ever forget what happened, even as new and brighter memories begin to paper over the old. They can’t forget. The scars will always be there, on the spirit if not the flesh. Even if it hurts less every day, it will always hurt a little. And yet, you’re here. So you get on with it.