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Life cannot exist without the Earth. Yet there is a not-insubstantial chance that life will win its war, and destroy the Earth. We’ve come close a few times. That can’t happen. We cannot be permitted to win. So
Like those weird cults that crop up from time to time. I heard of one that asks an old man in the sky to keep them alive every time they go to sleep. People need to believe there’s more to the world than there is.”
And the world is just shit. You understand this now, after two dead children and the repeated destruction of your life. There’s no need to imagine the planet as some malevolent force seeking vengeance. It’s a rock. This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in—if you’re lucky—oblivion.
the dreamer, the rebel, always reconsidering the way things have always been because maybe they should never have been that way in the first place.
as if in the absence of your children you’re trying to adopt everybody who touches you emotionally for even an instant.
Now, she needs someone to blame for the loss of that perfect love. She knows her mother can bear it.
