#existential yearning

a constant hunger for something beyond the psychological limits of the world

do you ever eat fresh bread with cheese on it and suddenly you’re sitting under a tree in the shade hundreds of years ago, laughing and sharing a meal with your neighbors, resting before you go back to cultivating the fields of grain to make the flour for next year’s bread, looking out upon the green pastures where the cattle graze, the cattle that gave you the milk to make this cheese, and soon you will go back to the fields but despite the hot sun and the hard labour, it is good, it is good because you are together and you are creating that which will sustain you, and you finish the last bite and lie back upon the soft brown earth which gives you life and to which your life will return