Beginning of the End_Down Train_Just Thinking_What’s in a Word?
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Beginning of the End
Well. Here you are. All the way at the beginning of the end. You’re staring at the snow, aren’t you? Like it holds the answers to your questions? You don’t have any questions. But it seems that you think there are answers. Answers to why it is only the beginning of the end, when so much has already gone wrong. That’s not a question; it’s a statement. There is a lot of thinking to be done. Thinking about how you could stay here, and remain quiet in your ways, to halt the end in its tracks. That’s how it’s supposed to work, right? If you do nothing, then you can cause nothing, and the world woul...
Down Train
“How did I get here?” He wonders, utterly confused.“I remember leaving the city in a slow and dirty train.” he muses, “The scenes we passed were dismal and bleak, the very essence of the world we knew would come soon, which could have been avoided… and yet, we allowed, because we were so desperately in love with our own wealth, power, convenience and short-term profits!He finds himself alone in the railway carriage. The scene outside is of a wide, dry and yellow field.Far in the distance, he spots… what? A patch of green?He gets up, crosses the dirty and shoe-scarred carriage floor.He opens, ...
Just Thinking
“Mr. Jacobi, I am Belvedere Johansen from the Icelandic Review. We appreciate your attendance here today as who honor our planet and the life that resides upon it.” “Yes, Yes, what is your question?” “Do you believe we have the ability to analyze the benefits of technology, while continuing to consider its effects on the planet, while we continue to strive for what we are told will result in a better world, a better life?” "Are you alright? You appear to not be well." A better world? A better life? I had to question the premise of what was being asked. What was to be considered. And I concl...
What’s in a Word?
Looking back now, I think I’ve taken two leaps of faith in my life. One of them may have been a good decision, but it also could have been a huge mistake. It is still not clewww.onedoor.ccar to me whether life would have been better had I not taken that pe into the abyss that lay before me back then. It’s not something I’m in the mood to discuss, though, so we’ll move on to the other time I risked everything. It wasn’t immediately clear that I’d done the right thing, but years later, it is obvious that it was the correct decision.Here’s what I did:I chose a course my advisor said not to take. My curiosity w...