One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

by Scaachi Koul

Your mom is your blood and bone before your body even knows how to make any.

And if you spend that much time thinking that something is going to happen to you, it’s likely because once in your life, something did, and you just don’t want it to happen again.

But no one on the internet is actually a person; they’re just an amalgamation of human parts, like a robot made from all the components of a person but missing the essentials, like a brain or a lymphatic system. It sounds like a person and, sometimes, looks like one, but it’s not. It’s an idea.