@itsalways_gez: “No Man Is an Island.” You probably already know this phrase. The words are universally known and often-quoted around the world, but maybe we do not all know the origins. They were originally written in 1624 by the English poet and cleric John Donne (1572-1631) in his Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions—Meditation XVII. This is one of Donne's most important and haunting works in prose, composed in less than a month during an illness that nearly cost the writer his life. Although it was written 400 years ago, it still has a profound meaning for us today, and I would say particularly in these Covid pandemic times, with isolation, lockdowns and a need for mutual responsibility and respect: No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were: Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. https://www.guide-collective.com/gc-magazine/no-man-is-an-island-the-power-of-community. #fyp #beach #foryo #walk #thoghts #poem #sunset #sunrise #me #foryoupage #viral

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