Time Reversibility Pt. 4
Sunday, January 12
From Book 5 of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations:
Existence is like a river in constant flow, and its activities are in continual change and its causes innumerable in their variety, and hardly anything stands still, even what is near to us; and there is the yawning infinity of the past and the future into which everything vanishes.
How then is he not a fool who in all this is puffed up with pride or agonized or aggravated as though anything would trouble us for any period of time and for long.
Time moves, and it doesn’t stop. Moments aren’t ours to keep—they’re here and then they’re gone.
This isn’t tragic; it’s just how things are. The choice is whether to cling to what’s already downstream, or instead to pay attention to what’s in front of us.