[druagain]

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This wasn't meant to be. My clothes tattered, my mind in distress, bones aching, heart breaking. It's been weeks, and all I've managed to do is stop my weeping. What I wouldn't do to take it all back... for it doesn't seem there's any way out. For once in my life philosophy has failed me, and that's substantial given I'm a philosopher. I've based my life on logic and reasoning, on the belief that wisdom conquers all. But I couldn't be more misguided.

Now I have to face the fact of my situation. I'm a lonely man, banished from all I've ever known. I'm lost. I'm confused. I'm weak. I'm vulnerable. Nevertheless, I won't give up. I will travel to the ends of the Earth, pushing the ability of my mind and body. I will climb the highest mountain and swim the deepest ocean; I will walk the hottest Sahara and venture through the densest forest. I will do it all, and I will persevere.

Just know that I never meant for any of this. I promise that all my intentions were pure, performed with logic and reasoning. But that's where I lacked knowledge, that's where philosophy failed me. Though I acted with the truest logic and reasoning, I failed to learn one thing: this world has no logic.