"There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when
there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that
our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle
or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and
thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for
naught. Maybe that time is coming soon, and maybe its millions of years away,
but even if we survive the collapse of the sun, we will not survive forever.
There was a time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be a
time after ("Fault" Green 13)."
Many people read this excerpt and find it saddening or are taken aback. Many are not use to hearing about death, especially in such a matter-of-fact way. However I see Green's writing in a much different context. I believe that instead of sending a message about death, he is instead sending a message about life. I do not believe that death should be a mournful affair. I believe it should be a celebration of one's life. I attempt to model my writing after this motto. I attempt to convey the message that yes, although you may not be remembered forever, you'll be remembered right now. I try to promote the message that you do not "only live once", that in fact you live every single day; you only die once. Through my uses of a variety of forward and personalized sentence structures, I feel I am able to allow the reader to really connect with my message, similar to the way John Green was able to embed his inner thoughts onto me. On a more stylistic note, I also attempt to mimic Green's writing by creating long flowing sentences that allow repeated words to become thought of as important in the reader's mind. I also feel like the topics I choose do not trivialize life, I feel that I rather impose the perception that life is not something to take for granted.
there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that
our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle
or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and
thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for
naught. Maybe that time is coming soon, and maybe its millions of years away,
but even if we survive the collapse of the sun, we will not survive forever.
There was a time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be a
time after ("Fault" Green 13)."
Many people read this excerpt and find it saddening or are taken aback. Many are not use to hearing about death, especially in such a matter-of-fact way. However I see Green's writing in a much different context. I believe that instead of sending a message about death, he is instead sending a message about life. I do not believe that death should be a mournful affair. I believe it should be a celebration of one's life. I attempt to model my writing after this motto. I attempt to convey the message that yes, although you may not be remembered forever, you'll be remembered right now. I try to promote the message that you do not "only live once", that in fact you live every single day; you only die once. Through my uses of a variety of forward and personalized sentence structures, I feel I am able to allow the reader to really connect with my message, similar to the way John Green was able to embed his inner thoughts onto me. On a more stylistic note, I also attempt to mimic Green's writing by creating long flowing sentences that allow repeated words to become thought of as important in the reader's mind. I also feel like the topics I choose do not trivialize life, I feel that I rather impose the perception that life is not something to take for granted.