A granted life
Is our life granted? Do we have any guarantee that we will keep on living? Are we going to continue living the way we have been living? Are we exempt from a change of life? Those questions make us realize that there is no precise answer; we can’t know for sure because we cannot control what will happen in the future.
If life is such a rollercoaster then, we cannot have anything guaranteed; it has its ups and downs, but we don’t know when and how high or low we will get. There is nothing that guarantees that we will be in the same situation; everything changes. Nature shows that nothing is permantent; we are here and sometimes there, and we will cease to exist.
So why do we act as if everything were for granted? We make investments and comments that are meant to be written in stone, but we know that we can’t do that; nothing is permanent.
Diogenes, a cynic philosopher, used to put a stand that offered wisdom. A Greek client came and payed for wisdom and received from Diogenes a paper written: «Always consider the end.» The client was so fascinated by it that he ordered his slaves to mark a stone with this wise statement.
Sebastián Samyaoa Steta
The only thing that we can take for granted in this life is death, but what would be the point of life if you knew what was gonna happen next all the time, thats the fascinating thing about life, your whole world can be changed in a matter of seconds any momento of your life. The only thing that we can do about it is to be grateful for what we have while we have it, and I don’t mean only materialistic things. We think too much about tomorrow as if it was a fact that it will happen, sometimes we stop doing what we really want to because we think we have time, but it isn’t always like this. Take advantage of this precious gift while you can, because the clock is ticking out.
I you’ve been considering doing something, the time is now.