May 6, 2025 07:19 PM
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2025 07:25 PM by Magical Realist.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVMBCZjk4c0
We're raised to avoid talking about it. At most we may express a passing morbid curiosity about some accident or murder we hear about on the news. But rarely does it affect us personally. Yet it remains the elephant in the room of our slick, image-obsessed soundbyte culture. And it is the one experience that holds us all deeply in common, sharing together its profoundly personal yet universally human inevitability. Someday we will lose everything we love and value and know forever. Nothing will remain. How shall we then live our lives?
We're raised to avoid talking about it. At most we may express a passing morbid curiosity about some accident or murder we hear about on the news. But rarely does it affect us personally. Yet it remains the elephant in the room of our slick, image-obsessed soundbyte culture. And it is the one experience that holds us all deeply in common, sharing together its profoundly personal yet universally human inevitability. Someday we will lose everything we love and value and know forever. Nothing will remain. How shall we then live our lives?