On Friendship

When a tempest comes, it cleanses all that is dead. Including friendships.
Friends. Friends don’t flee with the first gust of frozen rain.

They stick with you, sharing body heat, and pain, and sorrow, and tears.

And when the blizzard finally hits, they hold you tight for all their life is worth. Because your demise will be theirs as well, as a life without you won’t be life at all.

Those are the friends you must keep close.

The rest is chaff.

Love & The Second Law of Thermodynamics

If the Universe is finite, and the science affirms it is, that means it’s an isolated system. The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of such systems tends not to decrease, so entropy must be the law of the Universe, but…

But, if you go out and look at the beauty of this world, the wonders of the nature—big and small; the secrets of the ocean’s depths—hidden beneath its turquoise swells; the vastness of the heavens with their trillions of stars shining down upon you, and the Moon, and the Sun with its crown of fire; and look beyond all that to your fellow human, and strive to reveal the goodness in his soul, you will surely notice that there is more to the Universe than Entropy and Void.

If you are a believer—it’s easy. You are already there.

But if you are not, well, it should not be hard for you too.

As a man of science, you know we live one life, and one life only. And even if we are lucky, and blow a hundred candles, it’s still nothing compared to the Universe’s longevity.