Well, it's been a while. I'm officially a senior, which inevitably leads me to constantly think of the lack of permanence in the world. Also about how everything we do is for the future. We go to school so we can go to college. We go to college so we can get a good job. We get a good job so we can have a nice house and pay for our kids' college so they can get a good job and pay for their kids' college and so on.
But back to lack of permanence... Nothing we do will last forever, or even near, and I can't help but think... What's the point? A similar idea is brought up in
John Green's beautifully written novel
The Fault in Our Stars and its subsequent movie adaptation: oblivion. As the book says, "There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after." I think about this quote while I'm lying awake at night, thinking of... permanence. So, what
is the point of it all?
Right now is the point. We can't be constantly be thinking of the future because then we'll just skip over the
right now.
Right now is when we enjoy life.
Right now is when we have to be a person instead of fit right into the statistics.
So will you live, or will you be consumed by the inevitable oblivion?
