owlsinyourbelfry:

I pity Superman

He’s going to live a long time, if not, forever

He has friends and family

He will have to say goodbye to them all eventually and one day, everyone he knew and loved growing uo around will be gone

and then he’ll have to live without them for thousands of more years to come

Diana might survive alongside him for a long time, but the truth is, she’ll have to suffer the same fate too

And if they ever part with someone on bad terms, and the next day, they’re no longer part of their world, then they might as well grieve and regret for centuries, unable to reunite with them until the universe decides that they’ve had enough

and in all honesty, that could be billions of years away- that is, the day that they can finally be with them again, and a lot can happen in that time

that could be billions of years of grieving, anxiety, crushed hope, worry, an empty void for emotions and longing for someone lost

that could also be enough time to eventually forget- to render oneself incapable of remembering a loved one’s voice, being unable to recall a person’s features, and grief when he realizes he can barely remember the happy days that make up 1% of his entire lifespan, which may as well just be the bare beginnings of it followed by years without

sure there will be others beside him, also others to carry out the legacies of those he missed, but it will never be the same

imagine falling in love with someone so deeply you can’t imagine living without them

now imagine having them torn away from you when you still have so much to do that you won’t see them again till billions of years later

imagine fearing that one day, you’ll fall out of love, that when you see them again, they’ll be overjoyed but you no longer have any sentimentality regarding them- you’ve seen so much and they were only part of something so little. How could you be faulted for forgetting?

How many years have you been alive? Are you a teenager? An adult? An elder? Look back. Relish in the thought of certain memories having happened so long ago, compare yourself from then to now and be in awe of how much you’ve changed in, what? Five years? Ten? Thirty? Now multiply all of that by the millions. That’s a lot of time to go by. Having to experience that much and being unable to escape it fr whatever reason? That’d be a hell in and of itself. No need for bad deeds that’ll get you sent to the afterlife. It may as well be the demons that fear you when you get there.