there are 1440 minutes in a day Last night Jo was listening to snippets of lost media songs, immersed in the bittersweet experience of enjoying a creation that has already begun to disappear with time. We discussed it for a bit. Talked about how all media will eventually become lost media. About how many millions* of books have been written and forgotten. Almost everything we experience in our lifetimes will be lost in a hundred years. There are plenty of days when that reality is defeating but, most of the time, I find solace in it. It levels the playing field, so to speak. As I sort through this life, what has already passed and what I want from the back half, I become more at peace with its transient nature. Maybe the idea of legacy, in general, is overrated. I'm okay if this is all there is, we're all just ephemeral. I don't mind fading. I no longer have the benefit of youth, and I've never had much ambition, but the want of more, well, that's fairly engrained in all of us, right? A universal human experience, though the definition of 'more' may vary from person to person. For me, I want more of whatever’s been happening internally over the past few months: Just doing what makes me happy - well, at least as much as the tethers of responsibility and adulthood will allow. Because what would make me happy right about now isn’t necessarily sitting at my desk, and yet I am stuck here for another five hours. * it's estimated that 129,864,880 books have been published since the invention of the Gutenberg press in 1440. 9:57 a.m. - 2023-12-01 |
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