The cost of survival is not just endurance; it is metamorphosis. People confuse the preservation of life with the preservation of identity. They believe they can endure the catastrophe and return to the world as the exact same person who left it, merely with a story to tell. What must be understood is that extreme experience is an alchemist. It burns away the naive, the soft, and the familiar parts of the soul, leaving only what is hard enough to withstand the heat. You cannot walk through fire

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