Have you ever wanted something so badly you could taste it in the air?
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People are always after us about what they “need” from us. Sometimes they really do need it, too.
Should your friends encourage you to change, or to stay the same? Which do you think is more helpful, more dangerous, or both?
There is a species of frog, now extinct except in captivity, that has learned how to gesture. Should the disappearance of amphibians serve as a warning to us?
We read a story in elementary school about eating fifty worms on a bet. It was unpleasant. Of course, it’s the worms who eat us in the end.
If a lion charges the line between two zebras, she catches grass and air. Yet with so many black and white lines all moving against each other, she has to define outlines and keep them crisp in her mind. When it isn’t zebras, things get even more complicated, don’t they?
There is something appealing about fighting to the death. It may be desperate and hopeless, but at least it is defiant, a surge before the very end.
One year, you are perfectly comfortable in a crowd, on a train, swimming in the ocean, walking under an open sky. One scar later, everything about crowds, trains, oceans, or skies is forever changed.
The parasite of course sees itself as indispensable. Have you ever encountered someone with that kind of view of their dynamic with you?