ho de anexetastos bios ou biōtos anthrōpō
Are cockroaches better than you?
Are cockroaches better than you?
Life is a cake-winning contest where it doesn’t matter who wins, because everyone eats the cake until the end.
What are you running for? Are you dancing just to go home afterward? Do you rush time and numb your senses just to be dead sooner, tastebuds burned and hungry, or worse: never having tasted the flavor of the cake? Are you eating your own self-sustained cake, or are you eating another’s cake while they starve because of you? Are you winning because you brought sorrow to the world? Can you say you lived without knowing yourself and never confronting your image in the mirror, like being born a man and dying like a coward?
What is the value of a cowardly lived life?
“The unexamined life is not worth living; ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ (ho de anexetastos bios ou biōtos anthrōpō), meaning
“the unexamined life is not worth living for a human.” - Socrates
Are cockroaches better than you?