My Assembly Bill Article took me a bit by surprise when I read the headline on the front page of the paper. I found the headline a bit confusing and misleading from the rest of the article. Sadly, the headline lies completely under control of the editorial staff, bless their hearts.
In my Buddhism class, we've begun to talk about the perception of the impermanence of all things. I love talking about Buddhism and examining their logic and thought processes. It affords me a unique reflective property to my own beliefs and hopes.
In December I will have be alive for 9,132 days. If I live to be one hundred I will have been alive from roughly 36,500 days. I began this finite earth life like everyone else who has passed on before me and like those who will pass on after me. This is life. Life is living, dying, and seeking. This questioning and reasoning guides the general human struggle for identity and meaning to existence. The religious experience for so many never gets passes their inability to comprehend the suffering of others, or the giving of oneself out of love. The suffering teaches us, if nothing else, that humbly or not we are alive.
The simple comment offered by the professor today brought a lot of reflection for me:
"We seldom reside in the moment, but rather in the past and future."
