A pair of worn brown boots stands beside a small green seedling in loose soil against ochre.

Original artwork, not a still

Joan Borysenko

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Borysenko reframes mortality by shifting attention away from the inevitability of death and toward a more useful question: not whether life ends, but how meaningfully and intentionally someone chooses to spend the time they're given.

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