The so called END

They say all good things come to an end right? It's "the way of life", "the way things are", and I got to question, why? Why must all good things end? Wouldn't it be great to reach some sort of happiness state and just freeze there? A never ending awesome moment?

I think not, because in life we need contrast. How can we appreciate what's good if we don't know what's bad? If I were to stay forever in a "never ending awesome moment", I believe that moment would no longer be awesome, just plain boring.
In those moments of sadness, we flee to the memories of a better time, therefore appreciating them more, even because they are gone. We can never get enough good moments, but we need the bad ones (unfortunately) to appreciate them well.
A perfect life wouldn't be perfect if there were no sad times in it. And no, I don't think this is a paradox. Perfect (in my book) just isn't good straight on. Its a lot of good moments followed by some (hopefully tiny) bad ones.
So good moments must end for us to appreciate them? This sounds rather stupid of our part. We have a good moment, not enjoying it while it's there , and when it's gone, we appreciate it the most?
Again, I don't think so. It's because we enjoy that moment, while it's there, that we appreciate it when it's not. We know that was good. We flee there when we must. We remember.
And this lead me to think about death. because that's the ultimate bad moment, the ultimate end. Well, depends on your belief.

So I'm sitting here, thinking about "what if no one died?" . Well, the first image that come to my head, is of an overcrowded world, full of greedy people, trying to conquer space, because simply there was not enough room for us all down here, on this "little" planet earth. And this I know, where mankind touches, mankind corrupts. So I guess this is one of the reasons why this (good?)thing called life must end.
It would be good not to die, right? Stay here forever? See mankind destroy the world over and over again? See nations rise and fall? I don't think so. There's a reason why people have such "limited" lifespans, and I tend to think that if we were immortal, we would lose interest in life itself. It's like I said earlier, we need contrast. We appreciate life because it ends.
Then it's inevitable, we must die. This does sound rather hopeless, I agree to that. And if we look around, to avoid this hopelessness, we see so many theories. Heaven (and therefore Hell)and Reincarnation are just some examples. We can not accept the end, something so final. And personally, I can not as well. I believe people do go somewhere when they die, and it must be good. Why? Because no one came back yet. (Sorry if this dark humor hurt someone, it was not my intention).

So, all I really got to say, after all this babling around is this : Life is indeed short. Life has indeed some bad moments. But I think that if we live each day fully, trying to do our best, beeing true to ourselves, I think we have all it takes to make a good life, full of good moments, so when tose bad ones come around now and then, we are prepared for them, we have all those good moments to help us go through that!

So enjoy! Do it rather than don't. There's no turning back you know? No second chance? So we might as well do it right!



Cya later

Fen