Have you ever thought that every book that you've ever read is just a combination of 26 letters? And that every song you have ever listened to is a different combination of so many frequencies of notes? Every person that you've ever loved is a certain combination of atoms.
To me, this begs two very big questions. Firstly, how many more combinations can we make? Is there ever going to be a time when no more books can be written? Where all the ideas are going to be used up? The thought saddens me, because reading transports me to my own world. Reading is incredible. I wish I knew a way to convince non-readers to read, because the experience is truly magical. And I fear that as soon as writing becomes something of the past, so will reading. The same goes for music. We cannot carry on creating new combinations of notes if there are finite scales that we're working from.
Secondly, if everything can be done, how do we go about making an imprint on the Earth? Any job that we do cannot last forever, but we can only hope the legacy remains. As John Green says, "what's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"
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