the things that never end. towards the end of our lives, we notice that all of those things on our to do list are never ending. the picture is never perfect, the dust is always settling, everything is deteriorating and all things require maintenance. part of life.
it is the unread books, the messages we had planned to send, the fixes, those temporary things that were supposed to be just temporary. at times, the joke is that temporary is the new permanent.
wrap it up. get what you can done finished, try to say no more to others, cut the threads, do not let things linger. finalize and do not wait. rip the plastic protection off the newer devices and give away anything you do not love and somone else will cherrish. this temporary notion is real, change is coming and we cannot take any of this with us and we surely cannot finish all the things we have started.
stories pass, emotions calm then flare up again. in circles and waves.
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“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”
-Scott Peck. The Road Less Traveled.
