“If life’s so important, why are we all just running to the end of it?” My thoughts were a bitter observation of life's futile cycle. “Perhaps there’s no point,” he replied. “Have you ever thought of that? You’re born. You live. You die. It’s the natural cycle humans have repeated for thousands of years.” That truth was hollow and sharp. Humans fought over the meaning of life, waged wars under the guise of justice, and clung to religions that promised both beginnings and endings. We justified cruelty for the sake of an afterlife no one could prove, terrified of death’s finality. Everything we
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