Does the transient nature of everything bother anyone else?

[wiggle-room]

It hits me sometimes, petting my cat, enjoying a tv show, sitting in traffic - it is all so passing.

Everything is passing.

Every celebration, itself passing, is busy rejoicing in something that is already over, already fading.

There is nothing of permanence that I can tell. Nothing.

All that is done, all that you may do, and conversely, all that may be done to you, is in a state of decay and fading relevance from the moment it occurs. Dust in the wind.


How do you deal with this aspect of our reality?


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I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind.

[Dookus]

1. I'm down with it

Not sure the alternative's any better.

[Coventina]

2. yes

[Mountainman]

3. Well there is always the chance of something new coming

I use to feel that way. I dreaded the turn of the century. I felt it somehow meant the end of anything good and the coming of the end.

Well now each day could hold something good that I never had happen before. I still am afraid of letting myself enjoy it but things have gotten better. I'm into self destruction though.

[damnraddem]

4. No, but ...

that could change at any time.

[HEyHEY]

5. Yeah I know what you mean

I saw my sister get married this weekend, during the ceremony I began to have breathing problems when I realized it was finally her wedding and it was all going to be over quick....that day. One of those big days you always know will come, is here and passing.

ALl you can do is enjoy it.

[philosophie_en_rose]

6. Not really.

Although it's easy to see everything in a state of decay, there is a span of time in which events decay. We can choose to value that time and fill it with meaning. Even if the events eventually end.

[cade]

7. have trouble with it myself sometimes

tried facing the void a little too long, ended up a little nuts because of it. I don't have any faith to believe in. No one knows for sure what happened before our own birth or after death. Reality is based solely on my own personal experience. The emptiness of everything, the futility and knowing time is linear - passing in a line that doesn't curve it just goes on infinately to a vanishing point from the human perspective.
In other words life sucks, then you die.

[ben_thayer]

8. Sometimes...

but then I remember-Hey! The Bush Administration is transient too! Then I feel better.

:)

[TrogL]

9. I think those kinds of things - then the cat bites me

[FDRrocks]

10. Nvm

:D

[onebigbadwulf]

11. You'd really like the author Chuck Palahniuk

Most of his books are about that- the wonderfully depressing parts of life.



"everyone you will ever love will either leave you or die"


"the most we can expect from perfection is a single moment"

"nothing is as ever good in reality as we imagine it to be"

[Ramsey]

12. Everything is temporary!

That don't excuse nothing!

(A favorite line from the movie Moonstruck.)

[Nikia]

13. Yes, big time since early childhood

Maybe it had to do with my parents' early divorce and them dating several different people along with moving several times through childhood. Unlike some other children I kne growing up, I want to keep my old toys forever and wear my favorite clothes until I grew out of them. I had some good friends who I wanted to be friends with forever, but circumstances prevented that. More than anything, I wanted to live in one place and have my parents stay with someone decent.
Now in adulthood, I wear my favorite clothes from high school(8 years ago) until they have have holes, have trouble getting rid of anything, got married to a guy I met when I was 19, want a home of my own to live in for many years, and have good friends who I wish to be friends with forever. I want some permanence in my life, things that I can always count on to be there for me. I get sad sometimes when I know that won't be the case.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. Maya

This world is one of illusion, where everything appears to change, wither, and die. But the reality behind what appears is something else. Science teaches us that nothing can be destroyed, only transmuted. It's the same with us. Those lucky enough to have experienced That which transpires behind that which appears know and try to understand this great gift of changeableness given to us in this world. So sit back and enjoy the ride, and always remember, "This too shall pass away".

[buddhamama]

15. when i was younger, it bothered me

but not anymore. transience keeps it interesting.

"How do you deal with this aspect of our reality?"

take nothing for granted and live in the moment.

[OneBlueSky]

16. "There is nothing permanent except change." Heraclitus . . . n/t

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