Live your life to its fullest because we are frail creatures, and death is staring us in the face.
Life and Death. Life and death and time.
I started with energy use and the debate over gasoline vs wind or solar power. The fact is, some things die and live again every day.
There is the sun, and we know it will live again after the night. It would be terrifying to see the sun set if you had never experienced its rising before and thought that with its disappearance the world would be forever dark. But we know it will return. So with water. Hence the hail and the ocean.
Not so with mankind. Once he is dead, he is a pile of bones. End of story. Ants also die, though they don’t seem to care so much. Man does care – a lot.
Yet death is part of the natural world just as life is. The ants are not doing anything wrong by eating the man. We eat pigs, army ants eat everything they can. It’s a tough life. I’m being matter of fact with this “The Sun Always Rises”, not morbid.
I’m painting the world in red, not pink. Despite all our civilization, this is a world of life feeding on death.
There is yet that primal streak.
It, at least, does not die.