Distorting Love

Till We Have Faces

December 1, 2016

Orual, I am the goddess of family. Your actions towards your sister were egregious and cannot be ignored. You failed to trust your sister and were unwilling to believe the words she was saying to you. Thus, you overlooked and discredited her character in favor of your own rational thought. To do so is conceited and self-centered. Secondly, your let your jealousy stand in the way of your sister’s happiness. I know it is difficult to stand in between your sisters and it is painful to be thought of us ugly. I know it is hard not to cling to the good parts of life when the rest of the world seems to be falling apart around you. However, that does not excuse the jealousy that you allowed to infiltrate your actions. Finally, you loved Psyche with a selfish love. The root of this love is pure and genuine. You desperately did not want her to come to harm. The thought of her being sacrificed was painful and the thought of her being enslaved to a man of the mountain was even more difficult. But you distorted that love, distorted something that was good and genuine and turned it into something that lead to hurt and heartbreak. It is painful and difficult to watch others do something that does not fit into our paradigm. As a goddess, it broke my heart to watch you as your rejected all belief in the gods, refusing to believe that there was hope and something more than your horrible existence. Sometimes, we have to push through that pain for the sake of the ones we love. For your actions, I give you this sentence: you will watch over the orphans of society. To you, there prayers will come and you will feel and listen to all their pain and their loneliness. In doing so, perhaps you can learn more about what family means and what not having one would be like.