306. I ...

306.

I see the terrifying spaces of the universe
hemming me in, and I find myself attached to
one corner of this vast expanse without knowing
why I have been put in this place rather than that, 
or why the brief span of life allotted to me should
be assigned to one moment rather than another
of all the eternity which went before me and all
that which will come after me.

{Blaise Pacal, Pensées}