Is it worth doing ecstasy? Knowing that all pleasure is temporary and that this too, shall pass?
If everything passes anyway then pursuing pleasure just becomes a fool’s game, but so does pursuing pain. But no, since we all must die eventually all that really matters is the duration of our experience.
Every experience leaves traces in our brains, in our hearts, in our minds. So, while all experience will fade eventually the trace perhaps remains, though not in death.
But let me outline my premise: all experience fades and peak experiences fade in correlation with their intensity; the more intense, the faster the drop.
I remember vividly having prepared for months for my final law exam, sweating and toiling. Finally, the day comes, I do it and I pass. I’m ecstatic for one day and the day after I’m left there standing with just one question on my mind: what’s next?
And are our lives not a constant “what’s next”? If we make our lives out to be these constant points of achievement – commonly called goals – we miss 98% of the fun. And after reaching any one of these points we will be left asking: “what’s next?”.
How can we live our lives between these dots? Or rather, on a continuous line that includes the dots. For what are goals worth without the preparation and work that get us there?
Connect the dots, draw the lines. Slowly and gently. When we swing up and down the harmonious rhythm of life, the next point will seem like the most natural conclusion to our journey.
The journey of ourselves. Coming into our own being. Flowing from the great unknown into the unknown greatness of ourselves. Lighting up our spirits, from within.
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