Today I said ‘We are not here forever.’
But the more I think on that, the less sure I become.
I wonder if death is the same as birth. I don’t remember the moment I came into the world. I have a first memory, but I know I existed before that moment. And my sense of self was a gradual thing. A build up over time.
Maybe this is not true of everyone.
But in the absence of a clear marker of my beginning, the time before ‘me’ is a strange nebulous thing that extends infinitely. It has no marker.
And I wonder if death is the same. You can know it is coming. It can build up over time. Or it can be a sudden jarring thing. But, potentially, there will be no ‘me’ after the moment of death to mark it’s moment.
Without a beginning or end, is that not infinity?
Was our time here not ‘forever?’
Published on June 10, 2023 11:10