Nothing is Permanent

Everything ends eventually.

This was my thought while I sat in the back of a stranger's car while the real estate agent drove us home from looking at houses quite a ways away from the Central district.

So in my head I made a list.

Jobs: My mother and the real estate agent were talking about how their jobs had changed, and if the change was permanent. This sparked the thought.

School: All day I had been battling the constant thought of the fact that I'll be leaving Central soon, I then thought about how I couldn't stay there permanently any way. Eventually we would graduate, eventually we would go off to college, eventually we would move apart. Maybe sooner is better than later.

Life: My thoughts then moved onto to less immediate things. The first thing that came to mind as an example of something that just takes a while to end (usually) is life. The average life expectancy in the US is 78(.4, according to Google Public Data) which, while a long time, it far from permanent. My dog, Josie, who we've had since I was 4, is on her last leg. She's old, and can barely traverse the stairs to go out. I literally have little to no memories of a time before her, and can't imagine a time without her.

The World: Statistically, scientifically, and theoretically, eventually some cataclysmic event probably will happen to destroy or at least damage the world. Maybe the Earth as a planet will still be around in some form, but life on Earth may well stop one day. And even though this will probably span billions upon billions of years, eventually it will happen.

So there we are. Thrown on a slab and shown our mortality.

I like House.

"Dr. Wilson: Do you think he was dead? Do you think those experiences were real?
Dr. House: Define real. They were real experiences. What they meant... Personaly, I choose to believe that the white light people sometimes see, visions, this patient saw. They're all just chemical reactions that take place when the brain shuts down.
Dr. Foreman: You choose to believe that?
Dr. House: There's no conclusive science. My choice has no practical relevance to my life, I choose the outcome I find more comforting.
Dr. Cameron: You find it more comforting to believe that this is it?
Dr. House: I find it more comforting to believe that this isn't simply a test." (Wikiquote.org)

I like that too.

It's very, "You only live once,"

Or in a more Garrett Michael Garebear Walker style quote, "Life is a single shot pistol. Don't miss." Even though I made up, I feel it was necessary to put in quotation.

So, in what may be the ultimate in irony, this post has to come to a close. I hope I haven't driven any one to suicide, but it felt it needed to be shared. That's what a blog is for.

While writing the part about Josie, I came the closest to crying I have in years.