If it’s our habit to listen to the radio or engage with other means of communication, we gather news of our domain. The weather report is often innocuous ,the traffic updates are too. There are seamless streams of information that we ingest with our minds while making adjustments for the actions of the day, but then comes the news and it is rarely good. We hear of death and destruction.

But we go on anyway, performing the daily duties that define us.  We are motivated by thoughts of our family, our friends, our wants and our needs. We accomplish the multitude of tasks required of us.

We are perhaps the only living beings who are consciously aware of our vulnerability and mortality, yet we carry on.

We are a tenacious breed.