Constant Thirst

It’s the way the little discomforts eat away at you. It’s how you'll never quite be safe, never at ease. The race to consume is never run and the world is running out of patience with us.

Your kids are going to spend their lives wanting water. The wild fires will worsen. You know all this, but somehow put it out of your mind. You don’t worry about ten years from now in a gran sense; you’ve determined you'll be okay perpetually and your descendants will enjoy the same lifestyle you have so far. You don’t conceive of radical changes beyond what you recall witnessing in your own life.

I know it’s not the logical direction for things to head and, in fact, it is the opposite of what I expect, but it’s still so heartbreaking to watch humanity destroy itself and continue to cause so much suffering. Some kid is making your clothes for loose change and he'll drown in flooding soon enough. Our ability to help each other went up against our greed and we still have livestock without enough room to turn around their entire short lives getting slaughtered while temperatures become increasingly dead.