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“Most
of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.”
--Salman Rushdie
2012 is NOW.
It’s quite surreal how fast time flies.
One moment you are living in 2003, and the next day a complete year has come
and gone. The moments you relish today will just be memories tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this
world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” He might have
forgotten change, which is an indispensable element in existence. Change is
certain to happen, whether we believe the Mayans prophecy that the world will
stop breathing a few months from now.
In a series of conflicting emotions, we
always attempt to preserve things. You can just gawk at the latest enhancement,
but it speaks of how fleeting everything is, including our youth and beauty,
thoughts and memories. However, our actions are always betrayed by one thing: Time.
We have it in abundance, but we are always gasping for it, akin to our last
breath of existence. And we feel its authority through scarcity, be it in
simple deadlines or in the possibility of death.
Someone said before that we totally
take certain things for granted until they are gone. The truth is, we take them
for granted because we never realize that they will fade. For a 16 year old who
thinks that youth will be on her side will take her youth for granted, until
she is 40. Some who are in a relationship measure the days by cups
of coffee, and not by the little gestures of affection. We seldom entertain the
possibility of losing something or someone for that matter. In the end, we live the days as one big ball of monotony.
Maybe Emily Dickinson is right in saying that forever
is composed of nows. The present is all that matters because the past is a
memory while the future is a blur.
In general, man's free will makes him inherently defensive and guarded towards change. Free will, thought, and the capacity for logic imbues him with an eternal desire to impose order, his order, upon existence. I know it sounds epistemological, but to make sense of life's evolutionary nature is the only method he can allay his anxiety towards unpredictability and force majeure. To live in the moment sounds romantic. But man wants permanence, longevity and legacy. Things that are simply counterintuitive to the tenet of carpe diem-ism.
ReplyDeleteIn general, man's free will makes him inherently defensive and guarded towards change. Free will, thought, and the capacity for logic imbues him with an eternal desire to impose order, his order, upon existence. I know it sounds epistemological, but to make sense of life's evolutionary nature is the only method he can allay his anxiety towards unpredictability and force majeure. To live in the moment sounds romantic. But man wants permanence, longevity and legacy. Things that are simply counterintuitive to the tenet of carpe diem-ism.
ReplyDeleteTrue, the desire for greatness is always associated with situations that stretch the imagination. Romanticism and science may not oftentimes go hand-in-hand, but it never hurts to possess a pinch of both. Thanks for the thoughts. And good luck with the Archi Boards. :)
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