Muriel Barbury. The elegance of the hedgehog (№ 191414)

To live, to feed themselves, produce offspring, to do what we were born to die - complete nonsense, I agree, but that is the order of things. But people arrogantly believe that they can overcome nature, to get away from their assigned poor biological creatures, destiny, being blind to the cruelty and rudeness, which is their life, their love, their childbearing and fratricidal war.
I think the only thing we can do is try to find the thing for which we were born, and to fulfill it to the best of their ability, nothing complicating and not believing in fairy tales about the divine in our animal nature. Only then death will take us for the good occupation. Freedom, choice, will - all is a Chimera. We imagine, if you can make honey without sharing the fate of the bees; but it is not: we are as poor bees, which should do what you must, and then die.