Life and Death in a nutshell
Nut of the week: Baru nuts
Baru nuts grow in a tropical savanna in Brazil called the Cerrado. They are incredibly nutritious, even being called a superfood.
While it might be a rather depressing thought, this question seems to enter my head on a regular basis: "What is the meaning of life?" The answer is different for everything. Fruits grow on trees and fall to the ground only for more trees to sprout from the nuts within the fruit. Animals mate, reproduce, protect their young and the cycle continues. And while we have more choices, the cycle of life and death cannot be avoided. As Virginia Woolf said in The Death of the Moth, "death is stronger than I am." Death is permanent; it is null and void. It is the termination point for all life. That's why every minute that we are alive we must never take for granted.
Life has no inherent meaning. It is the choices we make in life that give life meaning. This concept is foreign to plants and animals, but humans have evolved past the other primitive life forms on Earth. It is astonishing to me that we have come so far as a society and yet this question still lingers in the back of my mind, reminding me that life is not permanent. We must cherish the people around us and the opportunities given to us at every moment. From a single nut, to the biggest skyscrapers built by man, everything must be appreciated in life. One moment it's there and the next moment it might disappear entirely.
Baru nuts grow in a tropical savanna in Brazil called the Cerrado. They are incredibly nutritious, even being called a superfood.
While it might be a rather depressing thought, this question seems to enter my head on a regular basis: "What is the meaning of life?" The answer is different for everything. Fruits grow on trees and fall to the ground only for more trees to sprout from the nuts within the fruit. Animals mate, reproduce, protect their young and the cycle continues. And while we have more choices, the cycle of life and death cannot be avoided. As Virginia Woolf said in The Death of the Moth, "death is stronger than I am." Death is permanent; it is null and void. It is the termination point for all life. That's why every minute that we are alive we must never take for granted.
Life has no inherent meaning. It is the choices we make in life that give life meaning. This concept is foreign to plants and animals, but humans have evolved past the other primitive life forms on Earth. It is astonishing to me that we have come so far as a society and yet this question still lingers in the back of my mind, reminding me that life is not permanent. We must cherish the people around us and the opportunities given to us at every moment. From a single nut, to the biggest skyscrapers built by man, everything must be appreciated in life. One moment it's there and the next moment it might disappear entirely.
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