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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the gras
by mengibar10 9y ago
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
--Attributed to Crowfoot (ca 1830-1890), chief of the Canadian Blackfoot tribe.
- mengibar10 9y agoWho downvoted this comment? This is a beautiful poem reminding how short life is. However you are achieved and done it passes like a flash. What is wrong with some people? They are trigger happy I guess, downvoting what they could not understood. Shissh!
- ionised 9y agoI didn't downvote, but your comment has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of the thread.
- mengibar10 9y agoIt is. We all live a life, like Kenichi, successful or not, full of achievement, but in the end we all die. The poem tells how short the life is regardless. Some HN readers are one dimensional people, even worse can not ponder for a second and give the benefit of doubt. Also, downvote should be for something negative, not just you think it is irrelevant.