Shekhar Natarajan

So what is more scarier?

I haven't died yet.

I have experienced pain.

I think everyone on earth who has experienced even a moment of life will have experienced some kind of suffering and pain.

And while we don't wish our worst experience on other people, nor would we necessarily want to relive them,

that's where we gain insight into compassion, into ourselves, our own limitations.

removes all of that friction and potential for deepening and seasoning.

I'm not talking about unnecessary suffering.

I'm not talking about things like torture, rape, imprisonment, those things that we can make different choices about.

I'm not talking about that.

But something that removes all of that, I think, removes our capacity to grow into what our species can be.

experience that you know I'd rather watch a disturbing and redemptive film that takes me to all those places but still live in a world where we solved cancer and my mom doesn't have to grow old and die

Um, and, and maybe I'm trying to have my cake and eat it too.

But why not?

The whole thing's a mystery.

We're suspended in paradox.

I don't know where we came from.

I don't know where we're going.

So why not?

Like, like, like my soul wants to reconcile my desire for the multidimensional human life, but at the same time, not compromise on the finality of that kind of loss and, and, and, and