Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:The Great Watchers wrote:You speak as if it really meant nothing. But it did mean something. Just as the sands of the Sahara could never destroy Ancient Egypt. It will be there, to be admired, awed upon, to be pondered.
Yet the pyramids run down and the corpses are decayed, the sphinx's face is broken and their society entirely gone, the people who built it are dead just as their children and their children's children and their children's children's children, and as the earth itself is consumed with decay all signs will be eternally lost.
And as we see, they are preserved by us. Even if we do disappear, why would it be depressing? If anything, we experienced something valuable and worthwhile. We saw good things and bad things. Triumphs and tradgedies. They all lead up to a central meaning. Life.





