One of my favorite sentiments if not songs from The Beatles is George Harrison's contribution to SGT Pepper, "Within You, Without You." There's something reassuring (if not also a little ego-deflating) about the idea that 'life goes on within you and without you.'
For someone like me who has a rather inflated opinion of himself, it always catches me up a little short to realize how much of what exists beyond my control, temporal or otherwise, existed before I arrived on the scene and will continue to do so after I exit stage right, or left.
So as sobering as this article was for me and my ego, taking it to its logical extreme with this little play-at-home extension was truly soul-crushing.
If it's all the same to you, I'll show myself out now and will create an absence similar to the hole in a bucket of water when you pull your fist out.
-bill kenny
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