Life passes. Every element of it. Nothing is truly permanent. All things are transient. We may find love. We will lose it. We may find happiness. We will lose that. All things are eventually lost to time. Perhaps, in a thousand years, human kind will discover something truly marvelous. We will not be there to see it. We will have long since vanished into the unceasing waves of time. All our hopes, our fears, our loves, dreams, and pains will drown in the maelstrom.
~Mad Vulcan
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This might sounds a bit harsh and perhaps cruel,
but I do sometimes also think that “who are WE? that we could sometimes easily view ourselves as THE important person, need to *deserve* this and that”
I have just read (& commented) on some recent posts/topic here that talked about we should be ‘FREE’,..but now your post has made me -again-wonder if perhaps we, each of us, might view ourselves *too* importantly, deserving ALL, everything we wants??.. while we’re, really, just a small tiny growing, maturing species in the Grandest history of this vast vast Universe (& even Multi-verses!!). Heck, even we’re still occupying like what…less than even1/4th of our planet (Earth)’s history??…
so really, WHO we are (let alone EACH of us), to ‘demand’ this and that?…
In light of this,..now I can finally able to somewhat more understand of WHY some most genuine souls/people here have decided that their own Death wouldn’t *matter* that much anyway!.. ie: this ‘world’, and even Universe, won’t feel such a BIG/huge loss when one tiny speck of soul is gone..! so they decided there’s really nothing wrong in leaving this physical existence/life. In fact, they felt very peaceful! (I love that recent post which said that “only commit suicide when you’re truly READY and not afraid anymore”..it might be true, in the Grandest scheme of everything).
Life is sometimes really about ‘survival-of-the-fittest’, ‘competition’,
‘who can keep surviving and those who can’t, would die’
Yes it’s harsh…but isn’t that just the *way* it is, objectively-speaking?..
“Life is never 100% entirely for us”, ironic indeed,..but again, WHO are we?.. are we God? heck no.
Maybe life is simply meant to be experienced, for each of us, and for us to just Be and Do our best, while we’re still living this physical existence… and maybe, it would also serve as a ‘lesson’, for our next Life (if you believe in afterlife).
Nothing lasts,..true..but maybe those ‘lessons’ are what truly *lasts*?..
Your post just made realize this ‘truth’, viewed in the Grandest scheme of things.
thx.
Niki: you’ve got in back to front mate; being free isn’t a selfish thing, a delusion of grandeur. How can you think that about freedom?? Freedom is the ONLY way in which we can love each other. We are trapped inside a system that takes away our freedom and so we become bitter and egotistical and it is THERE that we have delusions of grandeur. To want to be free is being at ONE with the whole universe, it completely leaves behind the concept of ‘you’ – there is not YOU in freedom, only love and peace for all. That is impossible in society.
@stevie2010: ahh…the ‘connection’! I’ve found it now thanks to you!
this is indeed clearing my confusions.
thanks for making me realizing that, mate!
Vulcan…
Life passes.
— True, but if you didn’t have life, if you weren’t alive, then what would you be nothing or something? Is nothing, something? Or is nothing, nothing? No thing, no life, no consciousness, no sententiousness. Would you prefer that? You couldn’t prefer anything, if you’re nothing; and what would you tell your grandkids…if you were nothing?
Every element of it. Nothing is truly permanent. All things are transient.
— No one can know, in this life anyway, if ALL things are transient.
We may find love. We will lose it. We may find happiness. We will lose that. All things are eventually lost to time.
— Is it better to find & lose love than to not love at all? If we experience happiness, how can we know happiness if we don’t know sadness, know light if we do not know dark or know pleasure if we do not know pain?
Perhaps, in a thousand years, human kind will discover something truly marvelous.
– Like modern people have discovered? Wouldn’t our computers, supersonic jet planes, super colliders be a wonder to people 1000 years ago? Of course they would!
We will not be there to see it.
— So what? Each generation can experience their own marvelous things. Latter generations can experience more marvelous things due to exponential increases in human knowledge and scientific discovery.
We will have long since vanished into the unceasing waves of time. All our hopes, our fears, our loves, dreams, and pains will drown in the maelstrom.
— See 1st Paragraph above: “True, but if you didn’t have life,…â€
IF YOU CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THINGS….THE THINGS THAT YOU LOOK AT CHANGE.
PlayDough, I understand what you mean. Yes, what we have discovered today is truly marvelous. I envy those generations who will see what we have in another thousand years or so. Yes, it is better to have loved, and to have lost than to never have loved at all. These things matter greatly to us, to humans. To the universe, we are merely an afterthought of an afterthought.
However, that is not to say that life should not be enjoyed. If our lives are to eventually fade, then let us make life worth living. Do something interesting. Swim in a lake, hike across a mountain. Enjoy these things while they last. The universe as a whole, all it’s stars, and life, does not care what we do, so do something.
~Mad Vulcan