Wednesday, May 11, 2022

The Burden of Knowing


 

There are many similarities between

creatures of which we are one yet we are 

distinguished from others not because other 

animals are designed so differently than are 

we but as a result of differentiation in the 

nuances of our thought and emotion. Those

fundamental emotions of awareness and of 

danger subservient to the will to survive are 

universally shared. The emotions of contentment 

or of fear we also share along with another 

link to survival; the impulse of greed that 

compels us to acquire the means by which 

life and pleasure are prolonged. The sole 

distinguishing feature is that of pensive

introspection, wondering where went those

precious years of existence, why so swiftly

gone, the tunnel of life leading us on to the

inexorable conclusion of life extinguished.



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