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Like Rutger Hauer in the closing three scenes of Blade Runner, I have “Seen things.”  In this clip, the replicant (a man-made human being with an artificially shortened lifespan) has Harrison Ford trapped.  The replicant is dying, and he wants to live.  He wants his life experiences to be maintained because those experiences have great value. But what he wants doesn’t really matter because fate awaits him, as she does for us all.

We are all a little bit like this character.  We want to live, to experience life to the full.  But we are limited; finite.  The reality that we will die is always somewhere in our mind, sitting in a chair in the corner, waiting for its turn to get up and play.  Everything we do, from adoloscence through our last day, is lived measuring how long we think we have left.

I did that as a kid.  So did you.  You looked at someone at least once and said “Well, you might be the asshole on top for now, but I’ll outlive you.”  Or with our parents.  You remember that time you thought to yourself that “You’ll do everything differently.  You won’t be so stupid when you are just grown and gone from home.

So we leave, and we get hit with life.  Damn, who said this was fun?  But it still beats being a kid, right?  Our kids have a MESS to grow up in and we owe them our best thinking, right?  Our backbone and our character.

We are people who also want to live, and in the living of our lives, we’ve “seen things”.  Please enjoy spending part of your valuable life here.