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You *Never* Occupy the Same Space Twice
The inescapable nature of transience
We all know how precious time is. Quotes about it circulate the internet like;
Lost time is never found again
and,
Time is the most valuable thing you’ll ever have, for when you spend a moment, you’re spending a portion of your life you’ll never get it back
And they’re absolutely true. Time is the most precious thing you’ll ever have. Even more than money, for you can get more money but you can never get more time.
The moment you’re spending reading this article, for example, is a moment you’ll never have again, and I thank you greatly for spending it with me (well, by reading my writing, and hopefully you’ll take something useful from it).
We know time comes and goes — that no two moments in time are ever the same, but what about space?
Take the space I’m occupying at the moment. I’m sitting in my room, on my laptop at my desk, writing a Medium article, as I have done literal hundreds of times before. My surroundings are incredibly familiar to me; I know where everything is on my desk, the orientation of the furniture around me and the patterns of day and night that inevitably repeat themselves like literal clockwork.