The person who shows up for these conversations is just one version, a character suited for this particular space.

From there, the path wanders. It touches on the spectrum of human connection, from the privacy of one's own thoughts to the egoless merging with another. It stumbles upon that bewildering moment after a great achievement. Not emptiness, but a kind of chaos, like squinting from the glitter of a destination you finally reached.

The journey ends up in a strange place, wrestling with the paradox of performing authenticity and the quiet, absurd ambition to build a universe. Not as an act of ego, but as the ultimate way to be surprised.