Entropy

Entropy:

against a back drop of entropy, life, and from the very moment of our existence we have this innate knowing that all of this will end. It's the second law of thermodynamics, a measure of our allotted time and energy somehow given. 

we are brief in our expression. 

this gives rise to myths of our position, that we are greater than the sum of all other creation - we build religions to our own beliefs of who we are. Yet this denies us the courage to live fully and love truthfully, robbing us of the urgency that each gifted moment calls for. Everything beyond this single moment is a mystery, uncertain in all but our brief time. No religion grants us assurance and no belief is a promise of our continuation.  Our true testimony is of entropy; that we will cease in this form and function and one day be no more. 

but there is some continuation, for the duration of time and world at least. What we are now at our exact and basic level will carry on, rearranged as life in other aspects. Some atom of existence may one day find itself a blade of grass, the tip of a crow's feather, a seed with potential for many new lives. We return to the nature of our essentialness.  

of course even the universe will end  - there is still the call of entropy at our very core. We are constantly faced with endings. Each small universe of our inclusion is but a temporary stay, a mirage really, imagined as a lasting home. In our minds we're persistently rebuilding a sense of safety, constructing an imagined fortress to hold entropy at bay. Yet all we really need is just a bit of courage, to face our letting go as the true miracle of our existence. 

nothing endures forever. 

brief, and brilliant too; that we are right now, existing bright within the world. It's our temporary stay that gives meaning to this all. We are the providers for the qualities of every moment; the heart that aches in loss, eyes that shine in first love, and awe that something as brief and fragile as ourselves belongs to a universe so large. It's all the courage of simply living, no hope of anything more than we're given right now. Against the backdrop of entropy; indeed, we are brief and brilliant. 

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Peace, Eric