Tick and Tock

Life is short. Life is fragile.

Death is long. Death is indestructible.

Death will take us all in the end when we're at our ends. It will take your family and it will take your friends.

No one knows their appointed hour and this next one we come round to on the clock could be yours or mine just as easily as it could be some stranger's somewhere, far or near. And some days it will have to be someone everyone holds dear.

Time is always up for somebody, somewhere, and someday, us too, me and you.

Any of you, all of you who bother to read this. We all share the same inescapable fate in the end. King or beggar, we all have that in common, which should inspire empathy and compassion in us for our fellow humans, but the history of the world is a long list of failed shoulds that never were nor was, so do your best, I guess, and drink a toast for absent friends, embrace your foes and make amends, and live your lives until yours ends.

Tick and tock.

Oh, I made a Yellow slender-man origami (or an alco-pusher)