Was flicking TV channels and was stunned by an old man talking about life as a flow of energy, he asked us to think about this,
‘Try recalling your favourite childhood memory. Yes, try… Now you may even think that you are part of the memory. But I have shocking news to tell you. You are not. None of ‘you’ was. None of the atoms in your body today was from the 5-year old.’
We all have regenerated, we are all fresh start. We come to being, we vanish. How cool is that?
That reminded me of someone complaining what’s the point of being alive when we all going to die?
But the question should be, what’s the point of living if we all never cease to die?
*I really didn’t get the poem recited at Obama’s inauguration. Was it me or was it the poet?
Matt | 21-Jan-09 at 8:28 am | Permalink
All sounds a little metaphysical…
PS I just read the poem and didn’t like it much. I don’t think it got a very good critical reception either.
Dan W | 29-Jan-09 at 5:05 am | Permalink
Ooo, that sounds like Buckminster Fuller and his idea of “Pattern Integrities”