zoom out

some strange thoughts while walking a while ago... Jose Rizal wrote several poems and stuff about the love for country, and how it can transcend all the other loves (as he said in Amor Patrio), even greater for a woman's love for her child... and how even the death of someone we love will eventually be forgotten (or at least be reduced to something that isn't of much imporantance). so it got me thinking...is there anything i have right now that is far more important than anything else? something that i can never afford to loose? maybe i don't...

anyway...zoom out is more on significance... we are but units, and the lost of one unit won't affect the body too much as a whole. so what if a grain of sand is washed into the ocean? so what if a single leaf falls off a tree? so what if a sheep is lost from the flock? so what if a person dies? only those directly near what is lost will weep, and eventually they will forget. they'll speak of that was lost in past tense, but then be able to smile again afterwards.

in the end, we are but another