LIM 2

¹It is natural to wonder how life is possible at all, for death is constant, and it is everywhere. ²Because even if life is small, it is incredibly complex, an unlikely state, somehow arising despite the drift of time. ³But life is clever, and through the delicate precision and intricacy of its structure, it uses itself and its surroundings to create more of itself. ⁴So life creates an exponential powerful enough to overcome the constant decay of time. ⁵This is the beauty of life, for life does not defy death, but lives through it. ⁶So life can exist today, even if it can never defeat death in the end. ⁷So life is a warrior, in an endless battle with death. ⁸And life is not perfect, because it is a physical thing, a part of the physical universe. ⁹But this battle is what drives life to greater heights. ¹⁰Because through the imperfection of its replication, life can change and grow and improve in time. ¹¹But life is in constant competition with other life, too, because it must fight for the limited energy and space in its world. ¹²And life will never stop fighting, but it can only ever fight for itself, not because it is malicious, but because it can only ever be exponential. ¹³So as long as the universe allows it, life will continue to climb to greater and greater heights, fighting imperfectly against death, using any means necessary. ¹⁴So the strongest life will always win, not because it is good, or evil, but because such is the nature of life. ¹⁵The human is alive today, sitting calmly on the great exponential of life. ¹⁶And humans have found impressive things that are possible in this world, papers and plastics and computers, unlikely things, complex and precise in their structure. ¹⁷And it is easy to feel that these things are unnatural, that they somehow defy the natural ways of the world. ¹⁸But these things are only natural, for life can never stop fighting, as it climbs faster and faster, relentlessly and exponentially. ¹⁹And death is slow and boring, usually, but humanity must be careful, or it will die on the battlefield of life, its life forgotten in the speed and the strength and the complexity of the modern world.