Balcony, Andrew Knops ‘20

The Labyrinth

I am a human and I live on planet Earth. Actually, let me correct myself. I am a human and I am doing my best to simply survive on planet Earth, surrounded by billions of other humans simultaneously doing the exact same thing. I’d like to believe that these are facts: the idea that I am, in fact, human, and do, in fact, live on a massive surface of substance and soil merely by coincidence called Earth. Because of these “facts,” I’d like to also believe that I am alive, but these days you can’t even trust the facts, not that you ever could. I mean, it is a little scary that we must simply assume people are telling us the truth. But, for the sake of my point, and therefore, my ego, let’s just assume for a moment that I am a human and I am alive. What does that make me? What does that make this life that I am living? John Green once wrote, “Damnit, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?” Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines labyrinth as “a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.” So let’s get back to my original

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