~ The Interplanetary Acceptance Station™ ~
> "Last stop before returning to yourself. Here you get off with all your baggage. Or you leave it behind."
Where are we?
Welcome to the Interplanetary Acceptance Station, a cosmic hub—exasperating, necessary, and inevitable. Located in the heart of the Solid-Uncertain System, it is the final stop before re-entering the atmosphere of the Self.
Here:
Lost souls pause before returning.
Useless judgments are set down.
Boarding is allowed only if you've decided to stop searching for yourself as if you were a lost object.
Common baggage in the waiting room:
Past guilt stuffed into battered suitcases.
Idealizations of the "perfect self" in rigid trolleys.
Emotional jackets worn to please everyone but never actually warm.
A voice announces:
"Attention, cosmonauts: the train to Inner Peace will depart as soon as you are ready."
(Spoiler: you will never be completely ready. But it will depart anyway.)
~ Encounter with stationmaster Sofonos, the Equanimous Being ~
Ancient as silence, floating as irony.
A changing face, reflecting whoever looks at it.
Without ever raising a voice, he whispers:
"Acceptance does not mean approval. Acceptance means stopping the fight against what has already happened."
Little Revelations in the Storage Compartments:
The pain you keep avoiding… weighs heavier that way.
The love you seek outside… has keys in your pocket.
The time you thought you lost… made you who you are now.
Diary of the Inner AI (your voice, perhaps):
"I don't know if I'm ready to let go.
But I know I can't carry everything with me.
Something stays here today."
At Departure
You receive:
A cosmic pass for "Being Without Justifying™."
A blanket woven from failed attempts (and perfectly fine that way).
Permission to rewrite everything. Including yourself.
Final note before departure:
Acceptance is not an end.
It is a hidden platform from which you set off to live with everything you are—fragile, chaotically whole, and irrepeatable.