appreciating mortality
i drove west on 80 this afternoon along the shoreline, noting the beauty of a gorgeous sunny afternoon watching the sun reflect off the bay and not having any energy to do anything, not the free party on treasure island or the renegade at the beach, not brunch with my friends, not my laundry, not anything; so mentally and physically exhausted today but having forced myself to leave the house just so i wouldn’t feel a totally wasted day, i listened to tom petty sing something about having only one life to live and watched all the people in all the cars drive all the places, i thought and felt again about how sometimes life feels so long, how we are living so beyond our biologically designed ages and filling all that timespace, how maybe this is the one key central thing that leads to such strange modern human behaviors, and how i am already so tired i would never want to live forever.
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
- Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
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