There was Haiti and now Chile, guess whose fault it is…I’m guessing global warming, theologians, and academicians, I’m kidding about the academician part and the rest remains valid, global warming and theologians, faux alike.
Maybe I’ve lost my sympathy–but people are dying by the thousands everyday and the economist in me is saying: “maybe it’s a good thing.” Remember, we’re all going to die and actually that’s what makes us the lucky ones. Before I heard the news of the Chile Mag. 8.8 earthquake, I wanted to talk about the “littleness” of life, a lot like George Carlin would do. We humans are taking ourselves too seriously.
It perhaps comes to mind that I might be reacting differently if me or my acquaintance is involved in this disaster; I might, I might not. My heart goes out to those who might have been affected and for those who are not affected, I wrote this a long while ago and I’d repeat:
We are going to Die!
And that makes us,
the lucky ones.
Most people are never going to die,
because they are never going to be born.
The potential people who could have been here in my place
that would in fact not see light of day,
out number the sand grain of the Sahara.
Certainly,
those unborn greats exists.
Greater Poets than Keith,
greater scientist than Newton.
greater minds than Einstein.
We know this because the set of possible people
allowed by our DNA outnumbers the set of actual people.
In the teeth of this stupefied odds,
it is You and I in our ordinariness,
that are here.
We privileged few who won the lottery of birth against all odds
How dare we whine!
About our inevitable return
to that state which the vast majority never saw.
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