Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Around the time Max came into my life, that famous quote from Kant sounded wonderful and I got hooked.
Now with Max in me, the things that amazes me, create awe and wonder in me are the simple and mundane ones.
In other words, I grew out of that macro quote, and started focusing on micro ones.
What creates awe is how tiny microbes create my morality? How did Moss and Lichens survive when Dinosaurs went extinct and how are they still surviving during this Anthropocene?
How do I exist in an organic form? How do birds and fish recognize individual humans while I cannot?
How do humans do what they do knowing their mortality?
Most of those questions weren't in the realm of questions around the time I was born, I am glad these are not only questions but we have some rudimentary answers to them too.
How much of unknown truths come to light when I am gone?
The biggest of questions are the ones that haven't even entered the realm of questions.
What are the questions that we are not even asking now?
It's a shame humans suffer and die of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases when such thrilling questions need to be answered.
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