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"For days now, my brain has refused to allow me to finish a thought, constantly interrupting with worries. Even my worries get interrupted by new worries, or facets of old worries I had not adequately considered"

"(...) and yet somehow, they still made time to create art, almost as if art isn’t optional for humans."

Marveling at the perfection of that leaf, I was reminded that aesthetic beauty is as much about how and whether you look as what you see. From the quark to the supernova, the wonders do not cease.

"(...) Maybe apocalyptic anxieties are a by-product of humanity’s astonishing capacity for narcissism. How could the world possibly survive the death of its single most important inhabitant—me?"