We meet clinging to the cliff at 
the edge of the world
after a long journey.
You are here. You have 
survived.
I have enormous respect for 
you for that accomplishment.

So congratulations on your success.

You are clever, fast, persistent, 
enduring, wily. The simple fact that 
you’re alive is proof.  You needed to be,
in order to survive through
this blood-soaked mess and chaos. 

As any glance at history will 
demonstrate, they keep killing 
each other every day, almost 
anywhere we look, bedlam and 
mayhem, and they’ve been doing that 
since as far back as anybody chooses
to remember or to forget, since
time never began. While 
in the thick of it all, you 
and I, direct descendants of 
the long stream of life back through 
the first pre-humans, and 
before that to whatever form we
took way back when, you and I
have somehow made it
through all this chaos and murder 
together. It’s been quite a journey, and 
it hasn’t been easy.

So it’s a victory for us all. 
We have arrived at this place, we 
are the winners, the survivors. 

But where do we go from here?