Long ago, when you were so very small and the world still very large - though, how large you could not yet know - you were cared for and look after by giants.
You may not remember. It was a very long time ago.
But they were there and so were you.
They held you in the palm of their hand. They covered you from falling rain and warmed you with sheets of fabric plucked from high places.
Everything you once were, was bundled up and cradled by the most powerful arms in existence.
You look around you now, no longer small, and you wonder where all the giants have gone.
Those titans of your youth, who held back a world of elements from your fresh skin.
Them that kept the wolves and fanged creature away from your tiny fingers and wriggling toes.
These great mammoths who could lift you up over any crossing, or place you down from insurmountable peaks.
They are not longer here ... and the realization will sadden you.
It should.
For an entire people that were once the most impressive thing in the universe has vanished.
It did so gradually and at the same time: all at once.
And you can't pinpoint the day between population and extinction.
You just, sort of noticed that you hadn't noticed until today.
So.
Really once must ask: where did all the giants go?
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