When the Grass Grows

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The following is a bunch of useless ramblings that may become your life philosophy but probably definitely shouldn’t. 

 

 

Have you ever heard of a grass-blade? Hopefully. You’ve crushed millions of them in your lifetime. Have you heard of a tank? No, no, they’re not synonymous. Crushing tanks is like crushing the earth, only smaller and it’s made of metal. Because it’s not supposed to be the Earth. The Earth is a place where we can get protected from everything that’s not so great for life outside of our little atmosphere. Kind of like a tank - you know, bullets whizzing outside of the protective armor, the frantic sound of the battle and the frantic loading of shells. A tank is the greatest battle machine ever devised, bar none except everything that’s better. Because in a tank, you have a sense of security. You feel invincible - you know that no matter what happens, you’re going to stay alive and well inside the stomach of your metallic monster. Not that I would know, because I’ve never been in a tank. But you always spawn again if something goes wrong, right? Well, yes, and that’s because what happens in your tank won’t affect you. After all, in a virtual world you virtually die and are none the worse for it when you make a return to the sunlit lands.

 

But here’s what some people miss: perhaps this game does not directly cause change, but even if the grass doesn’t die, it certainly doesn’t grow in Tanki or any other game. Trust me, I know it. You can’t crush the grass but you can’t have a manicured lawn either. And while you’re at your computer, the grass is growing outside. If left to itself, the grass will die.Take a look, right now, to your nearest outlet to the sky. The sky! One can’t imagine what is up there - we’re just a speck in the universe! Stars, nebulae, planets. Did you know that science itself knows nothing? Science knows nothing, it’s we humans who take it, craft it, use it, and at times twist and exploit it. The human brain is the greatest thing in all creation. We humans - yes, you and I - we are giants in this speck of a corner of nothingness and everything. And yet life itself is a mystery to us giants. We can take life, and harm life, or do good for and with it, but we cannot give life itself to anything. Nor can we sustain life without the famed object reflected in the mirror of Luna - that king among the slaves of our solar system and prince of mediocrity among it's own kind, the sun. All things rely on the sun for energy. All the way up the food chain, it is that solemn and awe-inspiring pile of nuclear fusions held together by the gravity of mass that gives us the ability to keep on living.

 

And what does that mean? Nothing, and everything. It’s the beauty of it that you can make what you please of the fact that we are nothing but atoms held by an indescribable bond known as life. It’s a miracle, plain and simple. Life stalls in a game like Tanki - it’s a great place to go and make some virtual (or even, if you’re lucky, real-life) friends, but what happens here means so much less than what happens out there. So here’s what you do, and don’t chortle into your cappuccinos until you hear me out: you sit down on the veranda with your aforementioned cappuccino, check out the clouds, and then think about life, death, and everything in between. Bring some existentialism to your life.

And then look at the grass. Because that is a miracle, yes sir.

It's a miracle when the grass grows.

Edited June 6, 2020 by Sacrifice
Got some feedback from a Random dude, time for a rewind... I mean, rewrite.

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Overall, it is a very interesting concept and I liked it. You went from tangent to tangent while still referring back to one concept - grass. This type of writing style is definitely my favorite and I enjoyed every bit of it. The philosophy depicted and opinion presented, both add to the beauty of the concept. Good work indeed!

 

 

 

 

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• Minor Grammatical fixes.
• Rephrases Changed. 
• Font to Trebuchet and made the text standard style. So that it is not hard on the yes.

Welcome to AWS once again!  

[Viking4s 10,791]

True, we owe a lot to the sun. It gives us all the energy used by nature. 

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i must say i enjoyed reading this

[dupuy 318]

Now this - this is literature. Agree or disagree with the philosophy all you like, but there is no denying that this is a cut above the average short story in its style of writing.