Maybe Next Time

I may know that life is precious.I may know that life is precious because it is all there is,and so little time to enjoy it.But I also am learning that there is no law of nature that promises happiness.No rose gardens in every yard,or food on every table.

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Given we have free will..or so we seem to think.... I am struck by the fact that we are not better than we are. We take the least common denominators,the basest of ideas,and the most self serving of policies...and put ourselves on pedestals.We accept that some must live in filth and poverty...that they should scrounge for food in the dirt while others live in palaces.Still.We make laws and act as though they can not be broken..even if to save a life..yet we break laws to take lives ...and to cause harm...we regress rather than evolve,and cling to faith in mythologies as though we were living in ancient Greece.

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We humans have taken the law of survival,and made our own beds of it. There is no community in our societies,and there is no safety in our numbers.
I fantasize that this life of mine is a practice run...like most people do,who know their life will never be what they hoped...and realized it too late.Life 101....the tutorial.How quaint. Next level....you get to try it for real.

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This scenario begs too many questions.Ha, logic annoys me.The truth is,there are no miracles,no second chances and no practice runs.I cant remember who first said that,but I believe it was John Lennon or Andy Warhol? who said Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.Oh indeed. Indeed , indeed.