Before I had a name,
I was only a possibility—
a tiny chance among millions
of paths that never happened.
I arrived in this world
without asking for anything,
then spent my entire life
searching for the reason why I exist.
Humans are strange creatures.
They build homes,
then become afraid of losing them.
They love someone,
then fear the day
when love turns into a memory.
We chase time,
even though time never chases us.
We collect things,
even though in the end
everything we hold is temporary.
Maybe life was never about possession.
Maybe life is about experience.
Because a mountain is not beautiful
because it will stand forever,
but because one day
it will return to dust.
A flower is not precious
because it blooms endlessly,
but because we know
its petals will eventually fall.
And so are humans.
Our value is not measured
by how long we remain,
but by how, in this brief existence,
we still choose to love,
to create,
and to fight against the emptiness.
If one day my name disappears
from the memory of the world,
I do not want to ask
whether I was ever great.
I only want to know:
While I was alive,
was I truly present?