The Bear

by Andrew Krivak

THEY SLEPT FITFULLY ON THE GRASS UNDER THE newly waning moon, two inhabitants of a world recognizable now to no one save those two who had come first, for all the others who had once claimed dominion and name and believed they would be remembered as a result lay inert and buried in the ground.

This part brought to mind Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot monologue. In the end, we’re all humans with a finite and relatively short amount of time on this planet.

You’re hungry, I know, said the dreambear, but you need to be hungry for more than food. More than sleep. We all go to sleep and will be asleep for a long time. Be hungry for what you have yet to do while you’re awake.

This is a call to action for me. Life is short, so do what you want and need to do while you can.