Essays on Kindness Page 2

We can’t elucidate reality to unravel the secrets it beholds. It’s what puts us on hold, spreading curiosity throughout us, it’s the curiosity we linger on that controls our lives, but it shouldn’t be like that. Don’t ride the days as they go on, drive them to a destination that you please. Slowly in our…

            In “The Lottery,” by holding the lottery every year, the community gains a sense of security. They are convinced that the lottery will keep them safe. Old Man Warner says, “Next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live hat way for a while….