Thousand: Seven Hundred Thirty-One

lonesome? How do you know you have a self unless you have the contrast of other selves? If it’s only you, if all is I, this ice, this stone, this void, how do you know what to do with it? Loneliness. The first emotion? No. I bet it was hunger. Hunger is a great motivator. It takes energy to do something. Long before thinking came along there was hunger because a little bit of energy got used to do the first whatever. The first twitch. The first reach. The first reaction. A little bit of energy that wasn’t available then