Seeker

by Douglas E. Richards

contrast?” it continued. “If nothing exists outside of yourself, if you inhabit the entire universe, if you are all there is—in all of time and space—then what do you have to compare yourself to? If you’re the only being in existence, you’re the strongest being there is, but also the weakest. The biggest, and also the smallest. Without contrast, nothing has scale. You’re everything, but also nothing. Worse still, you’re destined

You’re wired by evolution to find bad news more motivational than good. To seek it out.