Ciara Healy – six
Beauty can so often move us to tears. We see it all the time in film; when there is connection, reconciliation, when we declare our love, when we overcome. We cry because our own best hopes for the world so rarely get a chance to thrive. We cry because it is so hard to forget. We cry because we are fatal. We cry because our desire to have our losses reinstated uninterruptedly affects us through and through. We cry because we are not conversant enough with the language of our hearts to hear what love has to say. We cry when we learn the dark truth: love’s arrival is only ever fleeting, a momentary gasp of home. We cry when we remember the quieter truths we forget to live by in practice.