Oh, I can burp my ABCs...A...B...C...

I'm sorry. I couldn't stop myself from quoting Hammy (Over the Hedge).

"Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failure and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!"

I admit that I certainly feel the tension of this story on a daily basis. I want rest, I want to give up, I want to cave under pressure and stress. But even in some of my weakest moments, I demand the struggles for the victories, I demand failure to feel defeated and loathe it, I want to uncover the meaning of it all, but to what end! Can I glory in this unknown goal? This story has such an ecclesiastical undertone from the Other Side's point of view. The toil of the Road People is vanity and meaningless to them. But for the narrator, so does the Other Side.

"It is the thought of that that makes us strive to excel, each in his own way, and gives us an impetus which is lacking with you."

But how on earth can this give him an impetus, momentum to move forward? How can we strive toward something we do not know of? Better yet, why? What is it about this goal that we seek? Is it that we hope to know the goal someday by achieving it? Is the giving up horrifying because we lose the goal?

Questions for questions, I've got some questions...

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