Wraithsight

Wraithsight is a term that affects Wraithguards and Wraithlords in the Warhammer 40k universe.  Let me make this very simple and say, Wraithguards/lords are big robots who have the spirits of dead people in them to make them run, but because they're halfway between dead and alive, they don't exactly see the universe as we do - the are caught between the physical and metaphysical realms.

Which makes them slow and seemingly unresponsive.

Why do I bring this up?


I believe some people have a form of Wraithsight.  Well, I mean, not really, but just bear with me here.  So, when I speak of Wraithsight and attributing it to people, I mean it in the sense where these people just don't seem to be concerned with time.  It's almost like they're halfway here or present.  I've found they daydream a lot, there responses are either slow or unusual.  It's like time doesn't matter to them.  For these people, it almost seems like this mortal coil of theirs is simply a passing phase, a brief moment in time amongst a million others.

I generally find that people with Wraithsight are quite easy going.  If you don't catch up with them now - don't worry about it.  It'll happen.  'Stop thinking so much' they'll say.  These are the people who can sleep an entire day away and think nothing of it.  These are the people who will pass up opportunities, casting faith into the wind and trusting that the opportunity will come again.

In one way, I envy them.  They aren't caught in the turmoil of time.  They operate free of time, free of constraint - free of restraint.  Their whimsical ways seem to allow them to become - in some ways - more than I'll ever be.  In other ways, not so much.

While they do operate without fear of time or loss of opportunity - they operate without fear of time or loss of opportunity.  When I say this, I mean it in a way that it's a double-edged sword.  Just because one is not concerned with time, doesn't mean that time isn't still affecting us all.  It's like swimming with no fear of sharks - that doesn't mean that the sharks aren't necessarily there.

My mindset always takes into account all possible avenues - of all sizes and distances, chief among them being time and the opportunity of opportunity.  I'm very aware of time and how little we have of it in life, and opportunity, and how opportunities passed are opportunities wasted.  In retrospect, it's very funny the contrast between Eldar utilizing Wraithguards/lords, when pitted against their own views - as Eldar work fervently to accomplish as much as they can in the dwindling time they have.

Anyways, it was just a thought I had on my mind, people with radically different mindsets than mine.  I thought I'd share it aloud to no one, but that's alright.  It was shared, and if you choose to take a slice, please eat with me.

I could use the company.