Nothing that makes you happy will last forever. No feeling of joy lasts beyond the moment you experience it. Everything changes. Your life and everything around you is in constant flux. Stasis is the lie they've been telling you your whole life.
What you think you posess, you don't. Whatever goals you've accomplished have no value after you flip the page on your calendar. You'll never have enough to not have to go out there and get more. In any closed system, you can guage your decline in the quantitative measure of the amount of thermal energy not available to do work.
There is, in everything, an inevitable and steady deterioration.
They have a saying in Boston: If you don't like the weatherin New England, just give it 15 minutes and it will change.
Hidden in this banal meteorological bon mot is the secret to understanding life. If you don't like your desperation, your solitude and your misery, just give it 15 months and it will change. Conversely, of course, that perfect job, the love of your life and your new kitten will all be gone before you're dead.
What I'm trying to tell you is when I met her, she'd already left.
What you think you posess, you don't. Whatever goals you've accomplished have no value after you flip the page on your calendar. You'll never have enough to not have to go out there and get more. In any closed system, you can guage your decline in the quantitative measure of the amount of thermal energy not available to do work.
There is, in everything, an inevitable and steady deterioration.
They have a saying in Boston: If you don't like the weatherin New England, just give it 15 minutes and it will change.
Hidden in this banal meteorological bon mot is the secret to understanding life. If you don't like your desperation, your solitude and your misery, just give it 15 months and it will change. Conversely, of course, that perfect job, the love of your life and your new kitten will all be gone before you're dead.
What I'm trying to tell you is when I met her, she'd already left.
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jarelshow:
no, is the answer.
thrak:
Weird. In TX they say the same thing about the weather. If you want some real comfort, contemplate how many people will actually know you were here 100 years from now. Then contemplate how many people you can remember from 100 years ago. It's a tiny list. And you have better odds of winning the lottery than being remembered even 100 years in the future. I of course, plan on being cryogenically frozen so I can hang out with alcoholic robots and cycloptic mutants.