What is purity? Is it the absence of fault, or the innocence of the soul? Could it be the virginity of mind and body? How exactly can one know what purity is when we have no examples of purity? Even the purest of water has imperfections, though we call it purified. We need these slight impurities in order to advance ourselves, thus purity is detrimental to us and is blasphemous to strive for. Why then do so many try to make themselves pure, this is something I truly will never understand. For one to remain a virgin means hindering their species, innocence is lost and unattainable moments after birth. Thus we strive for meaningless endeavors, hoping to find that there is salvation in doing so. The truth of the matter is, there is no salvation, there is only survival. Living day to day is all that we have and all we can ever hope for.

Now in the dying wasteland we are waking up to the reality that our façade of a glorious world is gone, and has left behind its true form. A dark desolate place in which the organisms that are fundamental to life struggle to survive. We live off of the scraps of the old world, a place of lies and deception hoping that we will live through the night and rebuild. However rebuilding would be pointless for the cycle would simply repeat, in the end the world is an endless cycle of death. The rising and falling of empires matters little to the rest of the universe and thus is insignificant, we are but fools killing each other in order to have a false sense of glory. There is nothing that we can do to stop death, even when we delay it, it will inevitably find us and take us, our mark meaning nothing in the end. Our endeavors are pointless. And all for what? a few years of glory? a few years of prosperity? In the end nothing matters, the blight that has taken over is nothing, this is but another chapter in our species timeline which dissipates as it is written.
In truth there is no reason to live, thus I search for it. Something to make me forget all which I have previously stated, something that will allow me to live knowing that I am an arrogant fool. This is the madness known as life, why not experience it to its fullest, we won’t make it out alive.

P.S.: These may sound like the musings of an insane person, however this is the thought process which comes to mind whenever a subject is brought to my attention, in the long run it leads to nothing. However it serves to express myself and my feelings so I will let it sink in.

Author's Note

This is a partial look into our protagonists mind as well as mine, this is the thought process i go through when i think about anything in life but i enjoy it, feeling content with this, Axel is in part based on myself.