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    ‘He who despairs the human condition is a coward,

     but he who has hope for it is a fool’

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– Albert Camus

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Tough stuff, but what does it mean to be human?

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There are some fundamental issues that define us; some pleasant, some not so; interestingly we think of them as highly intimate, personal matters.

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They are:

– a sense of curiosity

– the search for purpose

– the inevitability of isolation

– the fear of death

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When I recently sketched some patrons at a local bar, I couldn’t help but wonder which category they currently embraced…

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