they told you not to look down
you never had vertigos, but now, now you're on top of the world. everyone's under you. no more worries. no more problems. you're at the top, and it's great. you can help everyone from here. it's great.
the sun is scorching hot. the nights are the coldest.
a gust of wind, you'd go down, down, down. an infinite fall.
but it's okay. because everyone will come to save you now if you fell, right?
. . . right . . . ?
the fall itself's not the thing that scares him, never has been. it's always what gets left above. if there's nothing above, if everything is down, down, down ...
oh, he could learn to embrace it.
oh, he could learn to love the fall.
oh, he could learn to crave it.
because it means there's another climb to be made. the pinnacle is breathtaking, it's everything he wants, has wanted, could ever want. but having it is only half as satisfactory as those last grueling steps to the top, no matter the prize.
the apotheosis is almost sobering.
everyone always told him he needs to slow down. now there's nowhere to go. so he's stopped. it's great.
there's a long way down. there's nowhere to go. there's only one way to go.
a nation has watched him purposefully leap off a very literal tower, in a fit of heroics, in a trajectory towards a very literal ground of, what was it, concrete ?? asphalt ?? he was caught then. a gust of wind, he'll be caught again. he's been caught at lower heights. someone's always caught him. if he doesn't fight the momentum of this infinite fall, he'll be caught again.
what's the harm in not watching his step, here, at the apex of everything ?? he made it here once.
& oh, he loves it here.
but the climb was heady, & the detox from it makes him ever - so easy ... to ... just ...
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hi i continue thinking about this & i'm putting the tags on blast :
#nr1 insert garfunkel n oates' Such A Loser #nr2...... so long as satoshi keeps hitting a wall there is something for him to strive for something to Push himself against #when things are easy he gets complacent & the longer the win streak the harder the wind gets knocked out of him when he falls #he's happy to lose. he's happy to be pushed to his limits. because it means he's kept on his toes. it means he has something to work for. #he would not survive the kind of win streak that champions like yuji & leon had #frankly his Current win streak is already clawing at him #if he didn't have such top-class battlers like the masters eight keeping him alert & the knowledge of a future match w/ ree #(who already almost fought him to a draw in the last alola league) #he would be two easy wins from self-sabotaging #he's self-sabotaged shorter streaks #never on purpose mind but........ a streak this long????? ......what's the harm in not watching his step here at the apex of everything.. #he wouldnt want to disrespect his challengers like that but. the whisper of that thought is there. not doing anything. just present.
one thing about satoshi is he is such a good loser.
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thinking bout how majority of satoshi's responses to learning new slang that originates from online circles is varieties on the very boomer-core "oh that's fun", or alternatively "huh that's... interesting...??? [does not get it]"
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SATOSHI AKIYOSHI + THE JOURNEY.
red choral diamond spray, the mountain goats // endless summer, nate pritts // rain shadows, andy goldsworthy // the greek tragedy i’ll never write, elisabeth hewer, elisabethhewer // little fires everywhere, celeste ng // journey with dante, mahtem shiferraw // colorful orange magenta storm clouds at sunset, keith webber jr. // such a loser, garfunkel & oates // a game of thrones, george r. r. martin // road to hell ii, hadestown.
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SATOSHI AKIYOSHI + RESTLESS AMBITION.
proverbs 16:18 // eating fire, margaret atwood // galatians 6:9 // recollections of my nonexistence, rebecca solnit // the fall of icarus, jacob peter gowy // henry & june; a journal of love: the unexpurgated diary of anaïs nin // let it be clear, neptune holub // norwegian wood, haruki murakami // eros the bittersweet, anne carson // the great elsewhere, maria ines gul // when rome falls, yves olade // gabrielle aplin // glorious heights, montaigne // i cannot believe that little death, rainer maria rilke // on restlessness, carl phillips // notebook fragments, ocean vuong.
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