I've been retained in a peaceful environment for three days, wonderful days they were, but in such peaceful environment only I could think about was death, war and conflict.
And to nature those thoughts I seeded in my mind, I ended up reading this marvelous piece of dialog:
Death: Each one of you,
My clammy hands must touch.
Each one must bend his
Forehead to my kiss.
But, hark!
Methinks a mortal doth approach!
What have we here?
What beauty by my side?
A rose in bloom, a shrinking violet?
Perhaps she has a mind to be my bride.
Victim: I don't want to die!
Death: But Death we are and have always been.
Victim: Someone help me!
Please!
What have I done?
Death: We all die!
Victim: But I'm young!
Death: Death is no respecter of age!
It can come any time, any place.
Just as this flesh is pink now...so it will turn gray and wrinkle with age.
Victim: Let me live! I don't care!
Death: Then why should you care if you die now?
Death: And suppose Death had a heart
to love and to release you?
To whom would he turn his passion?
Would you choose a person from the crowd there?
A person to suffer; as you do?
Suicide: Monsieur Death, take me!
I adore you!
Death: You wait your turn!
Well...
Do you know what it means…
To be loved by Death?
To become our bride? Adapted from An interview with a vampire
Beautiful, isn't it?
But not only had the supernatural taunted my thoughts, as they traveled the wide universe to raise the simple question: Should we be truly overzealous against war?
Let's imagine that in the whole wide universe there's a similar species like the ones we seem to be… imagine that!
They live in a far, yet near, star system, and to their lucky break they are somehow a couple of hundred years ahead of us in technology and stuff like so… Imagine that!
And they build a spaceship and navigate, quite unexpectedly on purpose, to here our home planet… what then?
What should we do then?
A Welcome is for sure the answer, but what type of welcoming "party" should we deliver?
A Martial one or a more fraternal one?
When i reached this question i fell asleep on the Jacuzzi and never deliberated about it again , leaving to you to see the trade-offs of the situation.
But now that i'm back…
To the city of my desires, hopes and dreams I just want to go back to my thoughtless sleep, friend joking and late night babe-sitting. Like I was doing before, because rest is only as good as the strength one want's to waste preparing for it.
Signing off for just a little while…
ME
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