“Was this new self awareness a gift or a curse?”
“Hope was such a gift and a curse all rolled into one.”
“Jealousy is a self-inflicted curse. Be happy for others and live curse free.”
“As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.”
“For a gift that does not find balance and a service that is not returned are worth less than a curse.”
“Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.”