2/13/2024 0 Comments Scars sam smith quotes![]() The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. I know it's silly and useless-epically useless in my current state-but I am an animal like any other. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.īut Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. “Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. ![]()
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