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By Ritisha Nair

I think the purpose of life

Is just to sit around with your friends

Make some art

Listen to some music

Feel safe and loved

That's all there is to this spinning dot

Doom is inevitable

Even if our species manages to hold it together for the next few billion years

The sun will swallow us

Till something bigger swallows it

And the universe- that

We keep trying to convince ourselves

Cares about us-

Will go on

As it should

That's all there is to this vastness

That's all there will be at the end

That we were here

And there was art

There was tenderness

There was love

And we were loved

That's all there will ever be

Just moments that make you feel

Like this love

Is enough.

By Ritisha Nair