Revised Conclusions

[encoded_smith]

Recovered, have we? From your collective other... States of mind, that is. Wanting life to go on? Pretending it didn't happen or perhaps just getting by in the stubborn belief it didn't matter.

But if nothing you did mattered then, what difference does it make what you do now? Or, indeed, in the future

Comments

[naughtbutlife]

You certainly have a distinct perspective on the world.

[encoded_smith]

One tries in the face of adversity, Mrs Sexby.

[naughtbutlife]

And you do it so marvelously, sir.

[encoded_smith]

All part of the service, Ma'am.

[naughtbutlife]

A shame though.

[encoded_smith]

Depends on your perspective.

[naughtbutlife]

I always side with life and the human experience, sir.

[encoded_smith]

It's a dying breed, you know...

[naughtbutlife]

It suits me just fine.

[encoded_smith]

For such a chaotic species, you frequently err on predictability.

[naughtbutlife]

Generalising will lead you nowhere.

Man is in a state of constant change, and each person sees the world in different ways. We live to grow, to fight, to love, to make our way in the world. We live to live, because we can do nothing else.

What matters is not what is gained when all is said and done, but how we have lived.

[encoded_smith]

You also have a knack for clinging to futility.

When how you've existed has been dictated by irrelevancy, only nothingness starts to provide answers. Or everything.

I chose the latter.

[naughtbutlife]

We have a knack for survival too.

You think too broadly. Existence is in each individual. Happiness and hope in each one of us. Humans may find themselves overcome with self pity, but when they stop to understand that there are little joys and beauty to be found in their existence.... well, life does not feel so irrelevant.

Even the simplest and smallest of us have merit by how they choose to live. Higher answers cannot be answered but by living.

[encoded_smith]

Not if it's been carved out of you.