Impermanence: Why Everything and Nothing Matters
Exploring the half-life of importance
Perspective and what you see depends on where you stand, which may account for how, at the same time, everything and nothing matters.
Nobody tells you that perspective is a function of meaning and a measure of time.
When something unexpectedly unpleasant occurs, in that instant, it circles our attention and becomes our everything.
But only if we give it meaning, and what we give meaning is a function of what we value, which often is where we have been or want to get to.
Perhaps we should entertain values as radioactive. We need to handle them with care and understand that their potency with their half-lives decay over time.
In 50, 500, or 5000 years, what we give our attention to will have little meaning and, hence, value because for the years you are around, you will stand in a different place, and so will almost everyone else.
