Changes

Nothing’s for ever.

Ever is actually a human construct, one of the numerous tangible consequences of our god complex. Ever, then, ever does not exist, well just the word and its sense, but not the reference. Let me explain you this. Imagine the word “night”. Its sense is “part of the day+after the hour X+associated to darkness, etc”. And its reference is the actual night, or AN actual night, so the thing (concrete or abstract) itself. Well then, once this is clear, you see why I think that ever does not exist really, that it has no reference in the real (whatever real means) world? I repeat, just because nothing is for ever.

So, by ever, I mean nothing.

Everything changes, my mother said, everything changes and people do not realize it when they worry about something. My mother is wise, very wise. I do not think being wise just comes with age. This is an apology for going with the flow, no good trend nowadays. If nothing is for ever, because everything changes, why should we worry then? Those who do not worry are said to not care.

How much I envy them.

Now look at the other side of the coin. If you stop worrying about things because you do not believe in ever-ness, then you are giving up. You have given up worrying or trying to change things just because “oh well they will change so why should I care?” But the truth is that precisely because nothing is for ever, because we do not have that much time and we need to make the most of it, that things need to be changed, so do not dare stop worrying and thinking and trying and perfectionating the nose of that ice sculpture which you made last year. Do it now before it melts.

Or you’ll regret it when the sun comes.

It was all a question of knowing.
Knowing, that it was all a question of thinking.
Thinking, that you had to change things.
Things, that are waiting for you to wait too long and change themselves.
Not that you try to change them when the deadline’s over.