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Old Mar 04, 2012, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by TheSilentEmpath View Post
the fact that everything you do, everything you dream, everything you are.. has all been done and thought before and is utterly pointless?
I disagree because I have not been here before to do, dream, be. Pointless to whom? I am here now, in my own little universe and in charge of becoming the best me I can be. It does not matter that I am in a field of flowers seemingly just like myself, that I'm a freckle on the elbow of life, I need to be the best freckle I can be (instead of turning cancerous and potentially threatening the life of the host).

I am not better or worse than the other flowers in my field any more than I am the "same" as or interchangeable with any of the others. The field looks the same to you, puny human but my soil is minutely different from the soil of the flower next to me, I started growing before or after it did and grew a minuscule bit taller or shorter, blocking some of the sun for another flower or being blocked myself. I am healthier than the other flower and have fewer bugs at my roots, my bit of soil drains better and my roots are not too wet but I am concerned about the bug crawling up my stem and I haven't seen a bee in quite some time. . .
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