Disillusionment is the willingness to reflect and be reflected through actions and their effects. Acknowledge the absolute and public nature of things. The value that comes with the action. Disillusionment opens one’s eyes – like waking up from a dream. It returns us to the body that lives in the world. Places us on the surface of things, at eye level, and on the threshold of the future to come.

Disillusionment evokes feelings of separation and sadness, apprehension and hope. It melts away cynicism, arrogance, and judgment. Takes us back to the starting point, from the perspective of “the next day.” Reveals the convergence of time into the present, turning standing still in the moment into a journey and a process.

Disillusionment is completely personal, but seems to be imposed on us by an outside force, as if it does not answer to the will and yet demands resolution. Demands of us to be unbiassed, to balance, demands composure and time. It seeks compatibility and agreement between myself and the world, myself and fate. It embraces finitude, vulnerability, and the concern that accompanies action in order to open a space where values are forged. A space where practical perspective sets abstract and perfect Ideas as concrete. Since moral action is an action that holds value, and disillusionment is a prerequisite for creating value.

What breaks, breaks by its nature, and what is gathered and assembled, is assembled by its nature.