my biology teacher told me this on friday, “We can’t ever die. Because bits of us, our pieces, our fragments (our dna) are passed on through the ages. We can’t ever die for we continue to live through the generation that is to come.”
and i’ve come to the realisation that i knew this. scientifically, i did, understand this to be a truth. but you know when you know something to be a fact but never take the time to question how? yeah that’s why it hit me, so strongly. because i’d never questioned it. no not once.
but then i kind of modified what he said to;
“We can’t ever die. No. Not us. For we continue to live through the generations that are to follow, through our DNA yes. But, also through the doctrines, the ideologies, the beliefs, that we carry on to them. The recipes, the dressing styles, the lifestyles, that we leave with them. Incorporated, most times ignorantly, for human beings are everything but authentic in that, we copy and paste what intrigues our very individual. We can’t ever die for we continue to live through these unintentional impacts of mind. We can’t ever die. No. Not us.”