All the lives we could live
I love this quote from Aleksandar Hemon"All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
This CS site applies to the quote. The endless possibilities of connecting with people all around the globe....but alas..alack..most people we will never know.
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“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.”
Richard Dawkins
I also realize that every media has it's distractors but just as in real life they are not the majority . I'm very pleased that I did join and more than happy with the people I have met . Some I relish as real friends and I'm extremely glad I met them . . .
We are indeed the lucky ones but isn't it tragic that many of the "lucky ones" are so caught up with their fear of death that they are afraid to live.