Doomsday

One of the realizations that came to me as I read Cormac McCarthy’s The  Road was that life is far more precious if you had to fight for it. Every sacrifice you make to accomplish something means that the worth of that sacrifice goes into that accomplishment. To have to fight everyday for survival, to […]

Morality of Mortality As children, we only see the world in good and bad. Lying is bad; being nice is good. Talking to strangers is bad; eating all your food is good. The world was defined very simply and starkly into two warring camps—yet, as adults we understand that there is a great deal of […]