If you've never contemplated the value of your life, an encounter with death awakens novel feelings and thoughts, and may lead to changes in meaning.
But changes can't escape your circumstances, which you must suffer nonetheless. Make any change in priorities and you're still as beholden to your life's vicissitudes.
It's common with death to find sudden compassion for self and others, and a compassionate disposition may lead to remarkable changes of feelings about life and attenuate obsessive responses. This is not necessarily good.
All thinking about death misapprehends the finality of death for thought.
You can learn do what you want, but you can't conserve time. Life can't be optimized. Moreover, an efficient world would have prevented your existence in the first place.
But there are trails left by others to follow.
The time to make things right for yourself and others is always here and now. In any situation, there's a chance things can improve because you're here. And if you can't make things right here and now, maybe you can elsewhere later.
Going for treatment? Appreciate the work of those treating you.
Not going for treatment? Appreciate being of service to others.
Don't understand the importance of your work? You have something to work on.
Others don't understand where you're coming from? Be on lookout for others who need attention.
Pass on enjoyment.
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Bob Dylan:
The man in me will do nearly any task
And as for compensation, there's a little he would ask
It take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me
Storm clouds are raging all around my door
I think to myself I might not take it any more
Take a woman like your kind
To find the man in me
But, oh, what a wonderful feeling
Just to know that you are near
It sets my a heart a-reeling
From my toes up to my ears
The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein' seen
But that's just because he doesn't wanna turn into some machine
It take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me
But changes can't escape your circumstances, which you must suffer nonetheless. Make any change in priorities and you're still as beholden to your life's vicissitudes.
It's common with death to find sudden compassion for self and others, and a compassionate disposition may lead to remarkable changes of feelings about life and attenuate obsessive responses. This is not necessarily good.
All thinking about death misapprehends the finality of death for thought.
You can learn do what you want, but you can't conserve time. Life can't be optimized. Moreover, an efficient world would have prevented your existence in the first place.
But there are trails left by others to follow.
The time to make things right for yourself and others is always here and now. In any situation, there's a chance things can improve because you're here. And if you can't make things right here and now, maybe you can elsewhere later.
Going for treatment? Appreciate the work of those treating you.
Not going for treatment? Appreciate being of service to others.
Don't understand the importance of your work? You have something to work on.
Others don't understand where you're coming from? Be on lookout for others who need attention.
Pass on enjoyment.
——
Bob Dylan:
The man in me will do nearly any task And as for compensation, there's a little he would ask
It take a woman like you To get through to the man in me
Storm clouds are raging all around my door I think to myself I might not take it any more
Take a woman like your kind To find the man in me
But, oh, what a wonderful feeling Just to know that you are near It sets my a heart a-reeling From my toes up to my ears
The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein' seen But that's just because he doesn't wanna turn into some machine
It take a woman like you To get through to the man in me