Life hasn't been easy for me, permanent health problems, money always has been tight and so on but still, I'm alive and there are here and there things that make the whole thing acceptable.
What do they do if the water doesn't recede? If they can't go anywhere else?Life hasn't been easy for me, permanent health problems, money always has been tight and so on but still, I'm alive and there are here and there things that make the whole thing acceptable.
The Japanese have a word for it, しょうがない (Shoganai) which literally means "It can't be helped" but it means more, living there you can have your whole life be destroyed in a few minutes, like a few years ago, but they just accept it and move on, rebuild everything despite knowing that maybe in a few years another dissaster will come and destroy everything again.
Your sentences are like quilts.
No one escapes death.They leave. And life changes
No one escapes death.![]()
No one escapes death.![]()
We were, but I was using the tsunami as a metaphor as well, just like in a post earlier. As for pessimism, if I succumbed to straight out pessimism, I wouldn't be here. It's that kernel of optimism that keeps things going.I assumed we were talking about Japan and natural disasters, not some we are all gonna die eventually deal.
But okay we can all be as pessimistic as possible.
The dark era of the universe*
The last remaining black hole has evaporated.
From this point onwards the universe consists only of photons, neutrinos, electrons and positrons – with no way of interacting with each other.
The universe continues to expand forever... but is essentially dead.
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