There is no absolute eternity in the world, so enjoy the process

Belle 2022-03-24 09:03:42

If no one cares about your death, as long as you have no nostalgia for anyone or anything in the world. You suddenly realize that everything you do, and everything you have beautiful, is going to be destroyed, and that there is no absolute eternity, do you choose to die? Is it more meaningful to enjoy the process or go straight to death?

Existence is a short-lived lie, and death is the eternal truth?
Such an understanding is too one-sided. Existence and death are a chicken-and-egg problem, it's a loop. When you die, your flesh turns to dust, which is also a kind of regeneration. Human society dies and other animals are born. When the earth dies, it becomes another celestial body.

If the universe is left to question the meaning of existence, okay, nothing is eternal, so the universe is not eternal, then the universe should also die directly? So what's the point of this question itself?

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The Sunset Limited quotes

  • White: The things I love are very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that, I thought they were indestructible. They weren't...

    Black: And that's what sent you off the edge of the platform, it wasn't nothin' personal?

    White: Oh, it's personal, that's what an education does, it makes makes the world personal?

  • Black: The sun don't shine up the same dog's ass every day, you understand what I'm saying?

    White: If what you're saying is that I'm simply having a bad day, that's ridiculous.

    Black: I ain't saying you're having a bad day, Professor, I'm saying you're having a bad life.