Genesis

We humans need answers to things we don’t understand. It’s our natural behavior.’

‘And when we can’t find the real answers to ease the pain,’ Garcia offered, ‘we tend to fabricate them ourselves.’

When you die, you cease to exist, Captain,’ Hunter clarified. ‘You cease to be, and so do all your emotions… all your feelings. You don’t feel any pain anymore… or love, or anger, or remorse, or guilt, or shame…’ He shrugged. ‘There’s no more suffering once you’re dead. Suffering is done by those who are left behind.’

Nowadays, more and more people are searching for validation from complete strangers, comparing themselves and their lives to individuals, who they’ve never met and probably never will. When they don’t match up, and they never do because they are essentially comparing themselves to a lie, they get low…