Entropy

Day-Old Doughnuts © Jim Korpi

We hope our smiles will last until the day we’re placed in a coffin. I hear talks of hip and knee replacements more than oil changes. Our bodies, as the objects around us, have become subjects of our endless battle against the increase in entropy.
The loss of control to the natural order of things, even if this order is a guiding principle behind everything in the universe, hasn’t yet sunk into our psyche.