❪ " there will come a time when all of us are dead. 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀. there will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed 𝗼𝗿 that our species ever did anything. there will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂. everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗻, 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿. there was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. and if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. 𝗴𝗼𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀. " ❫ ㄟ⸌