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[RM] 1.81.1a -- Eternity
Nov. 7th, 2007 09:23 amEternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? Tom Stoppard – Czech Writer
Are you kidding me? Eternity is a fantastic thought. It gives you time to think, time to plan, time to delve deep into your psyche and find out just what it is that matters, just what it is that makes you tick and makes all that time worth living for. Some might think that the longer it stretches, the longer it seems, that time must drag on interminably until the universe ends. There is nothing interminable about time. It speeds by in a whirlwind of change and evolution. Everything around you is changing, every second of every day. The human body mutates in upon itself as cells die and cells are born until the genome itself is different.
You see it in little ways at first. We're taller than our ancestors were. We live longer.Some of us even longer than others. As the environment changes, so do we. Illnesses those who came before never dreamed of haunt the footsteps of the populace, even as others that decimated the world, before, are wiped out by the magics of modern medicine or the resistance of the modern human genes.
Technology races on, faster than we can keep up with it, it seems, and yet there are claims that some hold it back. That we, as a species, are not where we were meant to be by this time. Yet, the things we take for granted--computers, televisions, the internet, cellular telephones--none of these could have been possible before the last century. We invent weaponry of mass destruction and conduct biological warfare, bringing more disease into the world to stop that which we fear rather than embracing it and seeing just where the human destiny truly lies.
How can you stand in the way of progress? Of evolution? How can you watch it unfolding all around you and be bored? Out of destruction comes creation. Out of chaos comes order. And then destruction comes and chaos reigns again until creation and order slide their way back into the human psyche, which is forevermore changed by what came before. It doesn't end, and that is the beauty of eternity. There is no end, no real end, and it flies forward in the face of anything you do to stop it.
There is nothing more brilliant than the spirit and the will to survive, no matter the mutation or change required. Perhaps it is a terrible thought, but only in the way any miracle is terrible, any god is fearsome, any breadth or span of time awesome in its own way.
Can't you feel it? Don't you find yourself wondering, always, "What comes next?" And don't you, somewhere inside, want to be one of the architects of the future, to mold it, just a bit, to your ideals and your beliefs? What could be more beautiful than that?
Are you kidding me? Eternity is a fantastic thought. It gives you time to think, time to plan, time to delve deep into your psyche and find out just what it is that matters, just what it is that makes you tick and makes all that time worth living for. Some might think that the longer it stretches, the longer it seems, that time must drag on interminably until the universe ends. There is nothing interminable about time. It speeds by in a whirlwind of change and evolution. Everything around you is changing, every second of every day. The human body mutates in upon itself as cells die and cells are born until the genome itself is different.
You see it in little ways at first. We're taller than our ancestors were. We live longer.
Technology races on, faster than we can keep up with it, it seems, and yet there are claims that some hold it back. That we, as a species, are not where we were meant to be by this time. Yet, the things we take for granted--computers, televisions, the internet, cellular telephones--none of these could have been possible before the last century. We invent weaponry of mass destruction and conduct biological warfare, bringing more disease into the world to stop that which we fear rather than embracing it and seeing just where the human destiny truly lies.
How can you stand in the way of progress? Of evolution? How can you watch it unfolding all around you and be bored? Out of destruction comes creation. Out of chaos comes order. And then destruction comes and chaos reigns again until creation and order slide their way back into the human psyche, which is forevermore changed by what came before. It doesn't end, and that is the beauty of eternity. There is no end, no real end, and it flies forward in the face of anything you do to stop it.
There is nothing more brilliant than the spirit and the will to survive, no matter the mutation or change required. Perhaps it is a terrible thought, but only in the way any miracle is terrible, any god is fearsome, any breadth or span of time awesome in its own way.
Can't you feel it? Don't you find yourself wondering, always, "What comes next?" And don't you, somewhere inside, want to be one of the architects of the future, to mold it, just a bit, to your ideals and your beliefs? What could be more beautiful than that?
