Many (most) spend their short lives working towards a physical goal. They build a house of cards as a means of status, security, or even greed.
The unfortunate part of all this is that a house of cards is destined to fall. The physics of this world demands entropy. We can spend our whole lives fighting it but it is a fight we can not win.
So why bother? The answer is simple, do not. On the surface it seems cynical or even nihilistic but I assure you what I mean is to the contrary. Do not invest in what is destined to rust away, instead invest in what is eternal.
The church lady rhetoric is far from what I mean. We were meant for greater, we were meant to thrive as creators never to live as slaves. Religions speak of ascension to a higher plane, I assure you we don't get there by living for the lower. We are the masters of our own destiny, it's about time we start acting like it.
The eternal is the only thing that actually matters. The world is all going to drift away anyways. I get so tired of trying to take the problems of this world seriously. It's really annoying because it won't matter at the very end of it.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, none of the grind matters, people create obstacles we have to work around that simply distract us from what is really important.
DeleteWow! The "house of cards" analogy is sheer genius. Yes, the way of this world is restless vanity. People waste their lives living to die.
ReplyDeleteWasted energy that could be used creating, it is tragic to see those trapped in their own loop of nothing.
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