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While thinking a bit about the story-telling atrocity that is the Spider-Man story "One More Day," (warning: spoilers for a horrible not-even-a-story story which nobody should buy anyway) I think I figured out a little bit about how life works.
It seems that every step that's taken comes at great expense, somehow, and it makes me wonder...what if we're unconsciously presented with the possibility of what we might gain, and knowing only that we will lose something, but never what, specifically -- and it invariably ends up being a price we wouldn't willingly pay?
I'm sure that the universe is simpler than we allow ourselves to believe. I'm sure that we understand this universe on an intuitive level deeper that we're prepared to acknowledge. And given our propensity to personify everything, I'm not sure this isn't too far from the truth....
It seems that every step that's taken comes at great expense, somehow, and it makes me wonder...what if we're unconsciously presented with the possibility of what we might gain, and knowing only that we will lose something, but never what, specifically -- and it invariably ends up being a price we wouldn't willingly pay?
I'm sure that the universe is simpler than we allow ourselves to believe. I'm sure that we understand this universe on an intuitive level deeper that we're prepared to acknowledge. And given our propensity to personify everything, I'm not sure this isn't too far from the truth....