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By Evan Bernstein May 26, 2015 Look around you. Are there people? Are they alive? Cool. That\u2019s all you know, though. Anyone who isn\u2019t in your immediate field of vision right at this very moment might be dead. You would have no way of knowing. Do you see your mom right now? If not, she might be dead. Same goes for dad. Unless you\u2019re standing face to face with your father, looking him in the eye as he says, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, son, I am your dad and I am alive right now,\u201d he might be dead. Sorry. You just can\u2019t know. Are you with all your friends? If so, awesome! That\u2019s so cool and great that you get to spend time with them. I bet they\u2019re really good friends. But if you\u2019re not with all of them right now, some of them might be dead. And if, from where you\u2019re sitting, you can\u2019t see any of them right now, all of them might be dead. That may sound alarming, but it\u2019s the simple truth. Any person could be dead at any time, and you would have no idea right now. Sure, you might find out pretty soon, you might get a phone call, or you might see it on TV. But right now, right this second, anyone that you don\u2019t physically see with your eyes could be dead, gone forever, and you wouldn\u2019t have a freaking clue. You\u2019re probably getting a little worked up right now, and that\u2019s okay, but you should calm down. Everything\u2019s going to be okay. Everyone dies at some point. Some people are dead right now. Some people who are dead you actually thought were alive, but since you can\u2019t see them right now, you didn\u2019t know they\u2019re not alive and actually dead. It\u2019s okay. It\u2019s fine. You can\u2019t know. You just can\u2019t.I might be dead right now. You don\u2019t know I\u2019m not. Unless I\u2019m standing next to you while you\u2019re reading this, in which case I hope I\u2019m saying \u201cThank you for reading this, and for letting me stand next to you so you know I\u2019m not dead,\u201d I might be dead. You might be reading my last words. Or I might be alive. And maybe you sister is dead. I\u2019m just saying, unless she\u2019s there with you, there\u2019s no way you could know.I might be dead right now. You don\u2019t know I\u2019m not. Unless I\u2019m standing next to you while you\u2019re reading this, in which case I hope I\u2019m saying \u201cThank you for reading this, and for letting me stand next to you so you know I\u2019m not dead,\u201d I might be dead. You might be reading my last words. Or I might be alive. And maybe you sister is dead. I\u2019m just saying, unless she\u2019s there with you, there\u2019s no way you could know. This axiom also applies to pets, grandparents, ex-girlfriends, and ex-presidents. Anyone you don\u2019t see right now might be dead. Especially Paul McCartney. I\u2019m always afraid that he\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}