Why do tardigrades freeze for long periods, avoiding the light? Don't they need food in order to continue existing? And although the word "to continue" exists solely as the result of a choice, most people tend to choose it as if it were a law that cannot be broken. Even though, if you think about it, no one ever signed that law. In reality, microscopic creatures can exist outside a state of need by entering what is known as cryptobiosis. This allows them to survive extreme conditions and long periods without water or food. But are other species capable of such a move? Nature divides living beings into "species," granting each its own unique limitations. While one lives in water, another can enter it only for a short time. This is true for marine creatures as well. An apparent exception is amphibians. They begin their lives in water, then move onto land, yet still return to their point of origin to reproduce. And so it goes in circles. A cycle. A cycle of continuation. Not necessarily meaningful rather, reproducible. We tend to call this meaning simply because it is more convenient that way. Let us return to the original topic. Although, to be fair, one might ask: did it exist at all? Or does a topic only appear after the first lines are written? So why do tardigrades perform this maneuver? To wait it out. To wait for suitable conditions.
Humans, in essence, are much the same. We wait too. Conditions — external, internal, imagined. The ones supposedly necessary to move forward. It is the same with me: I find it difficult to begin writing an idea, so I wait. Not because I cannot, but because I call this waiting a state. A state in which one can endure almost any conditions, just to later have the right to say that you continued. Or, at the very least, that you did not stop completely.