he went to the field to die

I’m gonna put this here as a note dump so you won’t have to scroll through so much text to leave a note/respond to mine.  I’m so nice.

"Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in a man. And all those who have not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence- they were afraid of death because of the sanction it gave to a life in which they had not been involved. They had not lived enough, never having lived at all. And death was a kind of gesture, forever withholding water from the traveler vainly seeking to slake his thirst."
— Albert Camus, A Happy Death