Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach

Sometimes I wonder if their current perceptions and new social conditions are really capable of protecting their hearts from pain and they have truly managed to attain true happiness through them. From what I’ve seen, not only have they not acquired the long-sought “serenity of mind and soul”, but all too often they also seem to come across the same problems in their emotional lives, the same profound pain, the same dramatic dilemmas and internal conflicts that we suffered in our own time. And let’s say I believe what Stefan said, that is, that the old, violent passions and the “dramatic solutions” of our time have completely ceased to exist. I’ve heard with my own ears about cases when a strong, new love has come into conflict with long-standing partnerships and strong emotional bonds, disrupting the affection between the couple, their shared memories and dreams and their shared lives

What happens then in such cases? There is no rule, no penalty, no apparent solution. It seems that in such matters there is no “must” or “mustn’t”. There are tears and emotions on both sides. And then they sit and wonder what they are doing. Stefan argues in that incidents like these the most frequent thing is each party leaves the decision-making to the other. But is this a product of altruism or an attempt to avoid responsibility for the happiness of their loved one? Stefan says—and it’d be very nice if it were true—that very often in such cases the companions feel for their loved ones what parents feel for their children: the same love and emotion. Putting themselves and their feelings aside, they try to see what’s best for their partner and act in such a way so as to avoid getting in the way of their happiness. “Nowadays, we have a highly developed sense of caring and understanding for our fellow men.” he said, “It’s one of the most distinctive features of our mentality. The exact opposite, that is, of the selfishness and the instincts of primitive times.”

If, on the other hand, you ask the Valley, they’ll tell you that the most important thing is the stability of the partnership. They strongly disprove of fervent passions and love affairs that bluntly and hastily come to break long-term and refined emotional bonds. However, they advise the “old loves” not to be afraid of a true, genuine Lipvirch

, if they ever happen to come across it… It can do no harm to civilised people with spiritual courtesy who, above all and everybody else, respect themselves. They advise them to embrace it and see where it takes them. Of course, the final outcome of such a conflict, with thousands of different factors each time, differs from case to case. Sometimes the new love ends up only testing the strength and resistance of the old one and soon fades away defeated.

Less often—especially in cases of very long partnerships with already grown-up children—it so happens that new love and old affection compromise and reconcile themselves without displacing one another. Each one holding a special place in the person’s heart, they last and evolve alongside each other for many years.

At times, however, the new love proves stronger and breaks the old bond. And even if such an outcome is not applauded, insomuch that there are no other deeper discrepancies in the partnership—because normally the phase of experimental partnership aims to bring to the surface such latent incompatibilities and not to open the door to new affairs—things turn out like they did in our times.

Generally, their argument is that the current relationships, being completely free from and alien to any old convention and based on unrestrained choice, mutual love and the pure intention for a lifelong bond—without the legal barriers of our time—should be immeasurably stronger and more stable than ours.

You could say that these scarce separations along with the instances of unrequited love are, if not the greatest, some of the greatest troubles of their current carefree and happy lives.

“Are we completely free from pain? No, we have succeeded no such thing…” Stefan was telling me yesterday. “There is no poverty, dependence, violence and matters like that, but the pains of the heart, no matter how intense, are welcome. They remind us of the nostalgia and the thirst for the Samith. We still suffer up to this day, and even more profoundly than you used to, but at least we know why we suffer…”

I have observed how they suffer in silence and with dignity, how they hide the pain coming from a loss of a loved one or by an unrequited love with a perseverance that reflects the old Christian perception of inner pain. They believe that this inner pain elevates the soul so much that it can become an acquisition even greater than love itself! While the one is transient, the other can never be taken away from you…