Liv Writes Words Again

  If I am to be tired, let me do so with the knowledge my exhaustion is the expulsion of joy onto a world that feels it and knows they are loved If I am to feel the ache in my bones, let it be with the feeling my arms have embraced so tight that all the meters of love extend upon a person's soul, knowing they are loved If I am to crumple to the bed with not a tear left in my body, let it be because I have cried out all of that I feel for others, that they feel as I do for them and let it be known they are loved If I am to die, let it be with love left in the world, burning a flame that will go into the next life of those waiting. I am happy to live. I cannot live however, without love.

  12.12PM. I'm in bed and listening to my spouse and a dear friend talk, life carrying on as it does and thinking to myself; am I allowed to not like something quite as much as others are?   Of course I am. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is a good DLC. It's also not quite as good as I'd like. And saying that feels like I'm doing something wrong, even as I sit here living my life among others doing the same. But holding an opinion for reasons I find are 'wrong' is something I've had a little experience over the years, passionately grounding myself in something I might love and finding others feel strongly the other way. And in this case, Shadow of the Erdtree to me, fails to ever be as good as the original experience of Elden Ring. And that may be because it is an experience crouched in difficulty.   Elden Ring and Shadow are both game and DLC crouched in the 'Souls' series of games and as such, are games that make difficulty kind o...