Tag: Mortality

We live in a world where many of us are privileged but full of anxiety and feeling a loss for meaning. The post-Covid-19 world enhances our lives’ perplexing and stressful nature. We sometimes live in uncertainty, with a forward view that is the same as backward because we only know the former...

I don’t know if you’ll be with your husband and son at a pool hall, working on your cartoons while the other two play eight-ball, when the texts and calls come in to say your father-in-law has died on the other side of the country — but I was. I often accompany my two pool fans ...

I don’t know if you’ll be with your husband and son at a pool hall, working on your cartoons while the other two play eight-ball, when the texts and calls come in to say your father-in-law has died on the other side of the country — but I was. I often accompany my two pool fans ...

Anoverwhelming sense of existential dread descended upon me as I reclined in the shadows by myself. The crushing weight of my mortality engulfed every aspect of my being. For the following few months, I stared down into the existentialist abyss of my meaninglessness as I contemplated the gravit...