Answer: Because while we can find joy in the brightness of life, happiness comes, and goes; Sorrow will take over, and it will go. It's inevitable. So why not live in every moment, every second, instead of dwelling on the black of night that will have to arrive; on the future that will have to happen...
"Arguably the best place to live in." Sigh.
I would like to think that it provides us with a miracle to illuminate our sometimes-dreary little lives. Nothing more humbling than the sky filling with light and fire.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should treat it as a celebration of new days instead of old ones ending?
I thought this blog was abandoned a while ago, actually. Glad to see it alive again :)