The human heartbeat can be heard two weeks after conception. It occurred to me, then, that this is how a person enters the world: as heartbeat. Perhaps this should help to frame the meaning of life. If we were once all heartbeats then so many other human characteristics take on a new kind of superficiality. If we can relate to one another, heartbeat to heartbeat, then maybe we wouldn't have all of this strife we see in our world today.
"I am so lonely, but I know there is a plan. There must be. I can muscle through my life until the next move is clear. I miss you all so much. I am alone for most of the time. It's just me and the cats and dogs. Nobody comes up. Nobody stops by. It's not like it used to be -- so full of life. Perhaps I'll move down there with you. But not now. There is a plan, and I must follow it. I must follow it even though it's too quiet around here."
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