Meaning Something

   People always ask “What is the meaning of life?” as if they already know what it’s like to live.

   As if pie graphs and files and heavy briefcases is life, or drinking and parties and sex is living…

   It’s funny how the Almighty Homo sapien is the most advanced creature on the Earth, and yet we all swarm to coffee shops and strip clubs like the flocking geese we are. And after witnessing a random man suffer caffeine withdrawal and watching a tired young girl shed her outer skin, we all head to church or our homes and pretend to love our families and give a rat’s ass about what’s happening with the war, who is on a mission in Nigeria, what little Sammy got on her spelling test…

   And all we really want is ____________________.

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