Don't Take Yourself Too Seriously

[Fleur]

I feel intuitively that there is more to 'life' than life itself, if that makes sense. I also think that the lives we lead are so short, there must be more, otherwise what is the point in all that feeling & emotion we experience? Why do we experience things the way we do if it's all just snuffed out in the blink of an eye? To me that is no more believable than anything else.

* Writer David P. Gushee said he became depressed when he realised that some day he would die and, within a few years after his death, only a handful of people would know or care that he was ever here. And there was nothing he could do about it.

"I began to realise that much of what has occupied me has been an attempt to defeat insignificance, anonymity and death," Gushee said.

"If I work hard enough, I can live forever, I thought. I can be among the few who cheat death of its victory by gaining a reputation that outlives them. I now see this is unlikely. I will not become another C.S. Lewis or Augustine. Instead, I'll be a college professor. I will write a few books. But these efforts will not defeat death nor oblivion. I am powerless against them. The prospect is more than frustrating: it is terrifying."

I can relate to that....

[paradise lost]

I don't know if the human soul exists or endures. But i find *this* could quite possibly "be it" because *this* is sufficiently amazing that i have no grander expectations. There's treasure everywhere.

As for all our struggles and emotions and the way we feel things...pehaps the beetles and the flies feel just the same. Do we concieve of a fly-heaven or a beetle hell? I have never thought about it. The struggles, emotions and experiences are only as serious as you take them to be. Just because it matters to ME, doesn't mean it ever really mattered in the grand sense.