Maturity is

learning to walk away 

from people and situations 

that threaten your peace of mind, 

self-respect, 

values, morals and self worth.

 

 

“Is there really anything behind our smiles and tears

but an evolutionary slip-up?”

― Thomas Ligotti 

 

 

 Black Malcerta
Freelance Artist

'In The Cave'
©Black Malcerta

 

Each day is a little life

every waking and rising a little birth, 

every fresh morning a little youth, 

every going to rest and sleep a little death."
 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

 

 

Life’s biggest tragedy

 is that
we get old too soon 

and wise too late.

'How could you rise anew

if you have not first become ashes?'
 
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

(art by https://www.artstation.com/artist/zeen )

The human mind,

is not some golden benchmark
glimmering on some
green and distant hill.

No, it is a foul,
pestilent corruption.

(Westworld.S01E09)

I read a theory once

that the human intellect

is like peacock feathers.

Just an extravagant display

intended to attract a mate.

All of art, literature, a bit of Mozart,

William Shakespeare, Michelangelo,

and the Empire State Building...

Just an elaborate mating ritual.

Maybe it doesn't matter

that we have accomplished so much

for the basest of reasons.

But, of course, the

peacock can barely fly.

It lives in the dirt, pecking

insects out of the muck,

consoling itself with its great beauty.

(Westworld.S01E07)