Essential Thinker

Borrowed Wonder

Daily frustrations become privileges when we shift from asking "Why must I?" to "How extraordinary that I get to."

We perceive mortality as theft—time unjustly taken that should be ours indefinitely. Yet what cosmic law guarantees us even a moment? The miracle isn't that we must die, but that we ever lived at all.

This perspective doesn't deny death's tragedy but places it within the greater wonder of having been granted any being at all. Borrowed time becomes miraculous time.