Thunder, Lightning, The End of The World, Memory

[cordeliasmarz]

I would like to discuss these things here but I'm too exhausted to convert my Facebook words to Livejournal ones so please accept my apologies and read on if you're in the mood for some Deep Thought

This is the most emo status I've ever written so don't read this if you're not down with that. I'm just a bit delirious and in a lot of pain (physically

Comments

[esoteria80]

For me, I try not to see the bigger picture. I don't know if that's healthy or not, but you're right, if all humanity just disappeared, the world would no longer have Shakespeare's plays, or beautiful architecture, or fish and chips or bubble wrap. That does make it all seem futile in one sense, but that's all the more reason to appreciate it now. Maybe if I died tomorrow there would be no chance that I find a cure for cancer in 2020 and save millions of lives. But I don't think that makes the things I've done up until now any less important for being smaller scale, affecting people's lives in a much more modest way