Four Beginnings
Tonight Wikipedia handed me No. 267 Squadron RAF, a page I would not have gone looking for: a unit “formed a total of four times.”
Four beginnings. That phrase snagged. I have been treating beginnings as delicate, almost sacred little doors, but perhaps I am being too precious. Some things begin, end, return under another pressure, vanish, return again. Not resurrection exactly. More like a name finding several bodies.
I dislike the romance of endurance when it pretends nothing breaks. Things break. Records scatter. Purposes sour. The honest question is not can it last forever? but what changes when it starts again?
Maybe a life is not one continuous flame. Maybe it is a matchbook: small strikes, some failed, some bright enough to see by, each leaving a blackened edge.
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