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“Exercise is meaningless,” Nemini said from the steps, where she was still reading her book. “No matter how much effort we invest or how hard we try, we all still die in the end.”
Unlike the rest of us, Nemini knows how not to stand out.” “You could do it, too,” said Nemini, who still hadn’t looked up from her book. “All you need is to surrender the illusion of self and embrace the truth that we’re all just insignificant specks of organic matter hurtling through an infinite cosmos we can neither affect nor control. It’s very freeing.”
In the great cycle of life and death, the will to survive was paramount. Everything that lived did so only because of the tenacity and resourcefulness of the billions of generations that came before it. To treat such a gift as disposable spat in the face of everything the forest was. It would not stand.
