Fallen

We’re misusing our time, Priya says. We’re desecrating our time. Doing wrong things with it. This isn’t how we should be living, is it?

I dont know, I say.

We’re at the bottom of some pit … looking up …, Priya says.

At what? I ask.

I don’t know, Priya says. God, maybe …

Silence.

We don’t have to live like this, Priya says. Things don’t have to be this way. But we do, don’t we? We’re sinners …

We’re fallen, Priya says. Desperately so. Because we don’t lament our fallenness. We don’t experience it, not really. It hasn’t reached us …

What are you turning me into? Priya asks. You and your philosophy! You’ve infected me with philosophy. You’ve made it okay to talk like this – as no one should be allowed talk. No one should be allowed to say these fucking things …