day 21: the problem with death
the problem with death: it's so final. human beings will deny it -- they yearn for praise, pine after accolades, reach for glory all their days -- but they salivate over trial, love trying, striving for something more. humans are so easily bored. it's so redundant, resting on laurels, so they set out on adventures, so they build and break and start wars, never content to simply stay in one place. and that's the problem with death: it's a still life portrait.
day 22: desire
My Bible falls open to Proverbs 21:25, about desire it's the death of the lazy man, who covets all day long while his hands refuse to labor. desire exists somewhere in between the wishing and the wish fulfillment, between the wanting and the getting, between the dream and the coming true. desire is hunger, desire is thirst, desire is the desperate ache moving from one's belly into one's heart. desire is aspiration, ambition, and they, gilded determination. desire is a goal without a plan, a waste of time idle hands, the devil's workshop.