I hear this piece as a question – one that gets asked over and over again with getting a satisfactory answer. The descending spiral that frequently occurs also points us toward a rather clear and inevitable endpoint, though we might not be able to witness the ultimate outcome. With this very existential nature of the title, I often find myself pondering over the meaning of our ‘selves’ and what constitutes ‘us’. We could be little units of cells, or even atoms that constitute a larger whole – a collective longevity only possible with the continuous existence and progression of smaller particles.