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jackedtradie t1_itckfon wrote

Reply to comment by ecm1413 in Human 'bog bones' discovered at Stone Age campsite in Germany by wishywashy9101

Blows my mind. The billions of people that lived before us. Gone like dust in the wind. They have families, problems, struggles, successes, thoughts and ideas, happy times and sad times. They were the centre of their own world for a second in this universe, then gone and forgotten

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Oblivisteam t1_itcmbdx wrote

The way I always reconcile with that thought is that we live on through the interactions and imprints we leave upon others. Your face and your name may be forgotten, though it could be remembered by history somehow, but those whose lives you touched will echo forward endlessly. It's all we can do to make sure it's a calm ripple and not a violent riptide.

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