[madaxe_again]

This used to bother me. I used to fear that all that is human would ultimately be lost and unknown to a cold and dispassionate universe.

It doesn't bother me any more, as my premise was wrong. I came to realise that the only way the universe can know us is through us - and that the best record of any moment is that perception of it lent there and then to those who lived through it - but ultimately the retrospective reminiscence of a gone past is but a pale shadow of the real, the here and now.

Cherish life, and strive for the future for its own sake - but never forget that what matters is here and now.

Come to think of it, I think what most fear is not death, but having never lived.