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  To think of and to see ourselves as a duality, as we might speak of 'your body' or 'my body.' Which suggests that there is a separate 'you' and 'me' to whom the 'physical body' we carry around, or which carries us around, 'belongs.'  Yes, part of the cost of attaining 'Ergo-sumness' is that we humans acquire and accumulate and form attachments form with things, both organic and inorganic.  Things which then becomes a part of us, psychologically and emotionally, if not physically. And herein lies the paradox; the fact that we must lose, be separated from all our perceived 'gains.'  Such it is that, as we travel through life, depending on how far we have travelled on our way towards our inevitable demise, our personal extinction.  We will have become separated from and lose some of the 'things' we have 'gained' along the way.  Until we get to the point of losing, but not becoming separated from ourselves, a

  Like the Sun, the Moon is of immense value to our life on Earth, as without them and no viable alternative life preservers, life as we know it, would not and probably could not exist.  And so it is that, if humanity were to be rational and logical us contemporary humans, and continue to feel a need for 'Gods.'  We would certainly not be worshipping the god/s and prophets of the Abrahamic religions. But, instead, like some or most of our ancestors, we would worship The Moon, and The Sun.  Indeed, we might also worship the water we us and the air we breathe.  And so it is that, when we look up and behold the Moon and the Sun, might we say, 'Thank you' to both for keeping us alive with their blessings.

  So, what, if anything, does it cost for us, if we are fortunate or unfortunate, as the case might be, to live beyond our childhood years and keep growing older?  Is it a blessing or a curse, or, were we to take a more objective approach, both, for us to keep going until we reach the point of the unrelenting gravitational pull of the unescapable Abyss before us? When we are but babies and very young children, there are two paths before us.  There is the path of the higher risk of an early death, as we might succumb to the various diseases to which we, by virtue of our infancy, might contract.  And there is the chance of us living to attain adulthood and realising or not realising the dreams and aspirations of our parents and ourselves.  But now that we are old and getting older, there is but only one path which lies before us; the path of dying, of expiring and ending our life's-journey. As a landlord might 'call time' before the appointed hour for which the law stipulates