Today, whilst scanning through book reviews on goodreads.com, I can't remember which book, but I remember coming across a quote in the summary section taken from the book along the lines of....
When you walk through a door, you're not just walking through a door, but a door thats planted on an immensely giant ball that is floating in the vast expanse of space which is the universe.
For some (or most people haha), quotes provide a exhilarating burst of inspiration, before disappearing under the small pressures of day to day life.
This quote, or attempt at replicating the quote's really nice because I often think about the mortality of myself and those around me. And these thoughts recur in moments irrelevant to that thought. For example, I could be at a party watching people dance, or be dancing and be completely in my head and start thinking about how we're all so temporary. It does however emphasise the beauty of the moment.
For the sake of easier understanding let's call this mindset of consciously thinking about how mortal we are, how little time we have left and the whole zoomed-out view of life as just meaningful but also insignificant in the grand scheme of thing as a 'we-all-die' mindset.
This we-all-die mindset, I've come to realise can be bad because thinking like that means that you can fail to be completely present in the moment. By playing observer in your own interactions, and framing everything that you do under a 'we-all-die' big-picture way means that we can't enjoy the now. And being in the present is important because... well apparently you're more happy that way. It sort of makes sense.
I mean, according to some guru of some sort somewhere, being in the present is equivalent to immortality because those who live in the now, and are conscious of where they are now and accept the now don't draw timelines back into the past of future. I don't actually think this last paragraph made too much sense - and it might be a bit too abstract. I'll try improve on it next time haha which means ... I won't.
For some (or most people haha), quotes provide a exhilarating burst of inspiration, before disappearing under the small pressures of day to day life.
This quote, or attempt at replicating the quote's really nice because I often think about the mortality of myself and those around me. And these thoughts recur in moments irrelevant to that thought. For example, I could be at a party watching people dance, or be dancing and be completely in my head and start thinking about how we're all so temporary. It does however emphasise the beauty of the moment.
For the sake of easier understanding let's call this mindset of consciously thinking about how mortal we are, how little time we have left and the whole zoomed-out view of life as just meaningful but also insignificant in the grand scheme of thing as a 'we-all-die' mindset.
This we-all-die mindset, I've come to realise can be bad because thinking like that means that you can fail to be completely present in the moment. By playing observer in your own interactions, and framing everything that you do under a 'we-all-die' big-picture way means that we can't enjoy the now. And being in the present is important because... well apparently you're more happy that way. It sort of makes sense.
I mean, according to some guru of some sort somewhere, being in the present is equivalent to immortality because those who live in the now, and are conscious of where they are now and accept the now don't draw timelines back into the past of future. I don't actually think this last paragraph made too much sense - and it might be a bit too abstract. I'll try improve on it next time haha which means ... I won't.