"This Too Shall Pass" (700 hits)
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Submitted by Beano (View user info) at 2006-09-25 07:29:09 EDT
This Too Shall Pass.
"Like every day that has come before, this too shall pass" he whispered into my ear.
It seemed a sensible thing to say and it certainly made sense to me. I was vaguely aware of the saying 'this too shall pass' and it's origins. King Solomon I believe, something to do with a ring engraved with Hebrew text. Kind of like The Lord of The Rings but different.
I guess he was trying to instil back in me a little bit of reality, a semblance of reasonability; I had certainly lost the lot over the last few days. Pain ebbed and flowed through my entire body, as if my nervous system had been rigged up to some huge pain generator and was pulsating signals from my Cervical nerve right down to my Plantar's
Perhaps he was contextualising my life for me, putting into perspective that whilst I was suffering as many had before and many more would since, time marched endlessly on and my suffering would have an end. In the big scheme of things my suffering was shorter than the blink of an eye.
He was reminding me maybe that like every day that had come before, just like every night, every sunrise and all of the sunsets, they all would pass. But likewise, they would also all return to pass again. The difference was I wouldn't,
Man is the one thing that isn't a constant on this spinning rock, in this frozen universe.
Everything would continue, it would all be happening, suns would rise and set, rivers would flow and days would pass, I just wouldn't be there to witness them. And what's more no one would care or even notice. What does the Sun, the stars, a River or a mountain care for my existence? Of course it cares not.
I didn't want to think about the reality though. It scared me and made me startle upright and open my eyes to escape the darkness and the thought. Think about it now. Close your eyes it's the only way, only in darkness can you think of such sadness.
Think about a hundred years from now, and you will of course be dead, and then think another hundred after that. Think how long it will take for those one hundred years to pass, how many people will live and how much living they will all do. You won't be a part of that.
Now to get some perspective double it, treble it.... It doesn't matter because we are still only talking of hundreds or maybe a thousand years. You will be dead for millions and millions of years... for ever in fact. Think about it... think hard. Once you are dead you'll never be alive again. Never again breathe pollen scented air, or use your eyes to see what beauty abounds.
Now make the most of everyday. Don't arrive at point of your death, like I had, with the words "Like every day that has come before, this too shall pass" whispered into your ear, resonating from the walls of your empty lifeless room before you realise.....
......"I wasted it all....I was a given life and I didn't live it".
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Submitted by Linus (user info) at 2008-11-29 15:43:36 EST (#)
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Congratulations.
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Submitted by maf54 (user info) at 2008-05-14 05:13:35 EDT (#)
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Just to counter what that idiot Director did to you.
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Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-10-05 13:45:50 EDT (#)
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Submitted by CRazyTALk (user info) at 2006-09-29 21:04:51 EDT (#)
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Dude... you're so gonna beat me with a post about something I didn't read.
Submitted by paint_it_black (user info) at 2006-09-28 08:12:59 EDT (#)
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wouldya?
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-09-26 00:07:18 EDT (#)
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You can read the line "I refuse to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
It's on a T-shirt I wear sometimes while racing. That T-shirt has gone 0-128 mph in 10.1 seconds while covering 1320 feet.
There's wisdom on T-shirts every now and then.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-09-25 15:04:26 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-09-25 11:59:15 (#)
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I think this story was a metaphor for a fart: Pass < gass. Smell < fart. Pollen < shart. Am I getting warmer?
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no, but my farts are.
Submitted by ballsonurchin (user info) at 2006-09-25 12:09:25 EDT (#)
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ur such a fag.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-09-25 11:59:15 EDT (#)
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I think this story was a metaphor for a fart: Pass < gass. Smell < fart. Pollen < shart. Am I getting warmer?
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2006-09-25 11:10:24 EDT (#)
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This is one of those things that keep me coming back here .
i know all the words , but it's good to refresh them sometimes ...
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-09-25 11:04:29 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Cinderblock (user info) at 2006-09-25 10:54:02 (#)
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Beano, this was very good but conveyed a mixed message, I think.
If life is so meaningless (that is, hundreds and thousands of years will pass after your death and hence you shall not be remembered), then why live it at all?
To merely take in the scent of pollen? Or, to look in awe at the stars on a clear night?
Eh, no.
Still a good post tho.
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The whole point is that life was far from meaningless... and that it SHOULD be lived...however people only discover just what they are going to miss (the ability to smell simple things, to complex visual wonders) when it is all too late.
You have to realsie very early in your life that it is short and should be lived.
That was the intended message.
I thank you for the comments.
Submitted by Cinderblock (user info) at 2006-09-25 10:54:02 EDT (#)
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Beano, this was very good but conveyed a mixed message, I think.
If life is so meaningless (that is, hundreds and thousands of years will pass after your death and hence you shall not be remembered), then why live it at all?
To merely take in the scent of pollen? Or, to look in awe at the stars on a clear night?
Eh, no.
Still a good post tho.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-09-25 10:49:40 EDT (#)
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Submitted by livEvil (user info) at 2006-09-25 10:32:59 (#)
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I like your ideas and this post overall, but your sentence structure and spelling could use a little work.
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Sentence structure I am happy to take as a critism... but spelling?... bearing in mind I am English.
Submitted by livEvil (user info) at 2006-09-25 10:32:59 EDT (#)
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I like your ideas and this post overall, but your sentence structure and spelling could use a little work.
Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2006-09-25 10:10:50 EDT (#)
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Really good.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-09-25 09:23:25 EDT (#)
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Pretty good.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-09-25 09:18:11 EDT (#)
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Good last line.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-09-25 09:09:37 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2006-09-25 07:44:05 (#)
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You gotta be one of my favourite people on this site.
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Blimey..... Thanks very much. Coming from a consistently great writer like you that is a nice compliment.
Now watch my pal Ballsonhischin -2 this!
Submitted by matnotharry (user info) at 2006-09-25 08:28:03 EDT (#)
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Food for thought
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2006-09-25 08:09:54 EDT (#)
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Excellent
Submitted by ooQueso (user info) at 2006-09-25 08:02:58 EDT (#)
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Nice!
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2006-09-25 07:44:05 EDT (#)
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You gotta be one of my favourite people on this site.