day no. 16,664: origin stories and eschatologies; the ballad of from and for

Revelation 1:8

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

From and for are inescapable. Everything, it seems, eventually comes down to competing origin stories and eschatologies. In other words, everything is ultimately about ultimates. Time must be pushed all the way to the corners.

From and for are inseparable. When you know where you're from, you know what you're for. You can't measure progress without a beginning and an end. If you know where you started, but don't know where you're going, you could be miles off track. If you've run for miles, but don't know where you're from, you may be merely circling the drain. You cannot appeal to how far we've come unless you know from where we have come. You cannot warn about how far we have yet to go unless you know where we are supposed to end up.