That which is petty and selfish and cruel may outlast me, or I may outlast it, but when both of us are dead, there will be people who are alive and free of us.
FOR REAL. I find this concept hugely comforting. No matter how big and important some tyrant makes himself out to be, it all turns to dust in the end, and all of their misdeeds are eventually smoothed away by the inexorable power of time.
that which lives forever is not conceptualized as petty and selfish and cruel, even if it acts that way.
THE MOST MAGNIFICENT BEING
That tree is almost 10,000 years old. SUCH DIGNITY. SUCH GRACE! It's like 16 feet tall.
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FOR REAL. I find this concept hugely comforting. No matter how big and important some tyrant makes himself out to be, it all turns to dust in the end, and all of their misdeeds are eventually smoothed away by the inexorable power of time.
that which lives forever is not conceptualized as petty and selfish and cruel, even if it acts that way.
THE MOST MAGNIFICENT BEING
That tree is almost 10,000 years old. SUCH DIGNITY. SUCH GRACE! It's like 16 feet tall.
--Mori