Darkness we cannot crack

Posted on by Reena Saxena

“It is an intelligence failure, but whose intelligence systems are perfect? We never hear of thwarted terrorist attempts, only the ones that destroyed us.”

He is ridiculed for his speech, but he makes a valid point.

Those stars above could be footprints of soldiers who went helter-skelter and lost the war, or they could be the story of the spacecraft that failed to bring the astronauts back, a story we must not forget.

The impressions of life will be based on stories told by others, while the autobiography remains unread.

And it’s only fair, since their stories or mine are all based on perceptions like carriers of light on a night sky, while the truth remains submerged in darkness we cannot crack.

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18 thoughts on “Darkness we cannot crack”

  1. Your observation reminds me of some of the things that Neil de Grass Tyson makes about light and the universe and the hisotry of humaity.

    Sometimes I feel like we are but little dots that fad from view when the whole image of a single picture emerges.

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  6. “The impressions of life will be based on stories told by others, while the autobiography remains unread.”

    Yow! Great observation… only the author reads the original manuscript (yet even that is suspect)

    good Six

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