How long does something last? When will everything about us be dust? Forgotten? The original Declaration of Independence is deteriorating. The pyramids are slowly returning to the desert.
We could all attempt to build more permanent structures but what's the use? The home I live in is 100 years old this year. That's a long time but not for a house built in Massachusets. They've got some dwellings that date back to our country's birth. Still those New England cottages got nothing on those in England. What about Stonehenge?
It seems everything we construct these days or less permanent and more fragile.
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But in the abstract it is a cycle that is necessary this scything down of the old to make fertile ground for those to come. Or so I'm told.
It's no fun when having to replace windows that have dry rotted though.
That nothing is permanent has a relief to it too. Even if that thing is an object of truth or beauty, when the standards change it allows for more to be recognized as such. And that can be wonderful.
But I can understand the wistfulness too.
The second time I had a tooth knocked from my jaw it was in one of these inflatable jumping castles. (They aren't around much anymore for obvious liability reasons). But I remember the taste of blood and holding my own tooth and will until I am either no longer or unable. Perhaps those kinds of things, specific to one transient form or consciousness, may be as permanent as anything gets.
It's not worth holding tight to something that is meant to flow.
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