You are being offered a gift. It is your obligation to accept it. Choosing to ignore a gift is to deny interaction, communion, and relation. Therein, you must accept. You must take part in what existence has offered you.

In so doing you take responsibility for your share, for your connection to and inevitable inability to dismiss the question of wealth. You must come to terms with how best to deal with the excess that is a basic result of being alive.

The gift is a sacrifice. Not simply because it is given, and someone loses, but instead because it transforms. It becomes something that must be honored, passed on, consumed, shared. It will never again be what it was, as it must never again be simply a marker for accruing property; in that sense the gift is property destroyed, martyred, cursed.

That sacrifice is made for you; that curse is yours. It is yours whether you accept the gift offered you. It is yours whether you acknowledge your place in the ever expanding everything- the accursed share.

'The curse tears the sacrificed away from the order of things; it gives a recognizable figure, which now radiates intimacy, anguish, the profundity of living beings.'*

And thus, through radiance, through illumination, the curse is lifted, but it is yours until you give in return, without malice, without disregard, without design.... without end.

*Bataille, Georges. The accursed share.

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