Before Everything · English Edition · No. 09
THE LAST GREAT EXCUSE
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF BLADEFREGA
THOU SHALT NOT CALL FEAR RESEARCH.
Fear is an excellent researcher. It gathers evidence indefinitely and never reaches a conclusion. It asks for one more book, one more opinion, one more course, one more revision, and one more week.
Eventually the project becomes extremely informed and completely absent. Preparation is valuable when it leads to action. Beyond that point, it becomes a furnished waiting room. The creator’s job is not to eliminate fear. It is to prevent fear from becoming the editor-in-chief. Eternity belongs to the work that crossed the threshold, not to the intention that remained impeccably researched.
Conclusion
Eternity does not begin when time becomes endless. It begins when a decision, a page, or a work refuses to expire.
Ferdinando