The plan is not what you think.
There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.
Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.