The Human Contract... A number. A document. A registration of existence. Before we speak our first word, before we understand what it means to be, we are recorded. Measured. Filed.

As an inherently optimistic person, I often find myself looking on the bright side of life. True understanding, however, comes from recognising the importance of balance... Pessimistic philosophers challenge the belief that life naturally improves or that happiness is easily attainable.

Sometimes I imagine the universe looking back at us, through what astronomers call the Helix Nebula — the great “Eye of the Universe.” When I see that image, I wonder: are we gazing into creation, or is creation gazing into us? It feels as though, in that single, swirling eye of light, we are both the observer and the observed — a part of something vast, mysterious, and alive.