Deep Impact-ing

When you consider the inevitability of death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn’t matter if we are awkward sometimes, care for another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, or enjoy a non-stop expanse of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. It probably doesn’t matter if we sometimes look clumsy or get dirty or ask stupid questions or reveal our ignorance or say the wrong thing or light up with wonder like the children that we all are.

- Diane Ackerman