We’re misusing our time, Uma says. We’re desecrating our time. Doing wrong things with it. This isn’t how we should be living, is it?
I don’t know, I say.
We’re at the bottom of some pit … looking up …, Uma says.
At what? I ask.
I don’t know, Uma says. God, maybe …
Silence.
We don’t have to live like this, Uma says. Things don’t have to be this way. But we do, don’t we? We’re sinners …
We’re fallen, Uma 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? Uma 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 things …
Work in Progress 