I
have existential issues. I found that out when I was having a pretty good time
one day and then suddenly the words “THIS TOO WILL PASS” resounded in my mind.
Now, of course, that is a line to get out of those times when you’re feeling
overly angst-y and melancholic about something that isn’t really even something
to be melancholic because you have to just walk it off like a human being and
not whine about it and feel that every sad song is about you, you self-absorbed
miserable prick, but it’s also a line that you can apply to anything in life.
Got a Dog? That too will pass. Thoroughly enjoying a new book, game or
whatever? That too will pass. Finally whitened your teeth? That too will pass.
I suppose an inevitable reality of our life is that everything ‘passes’, which
is probably why we say that someone ‘passes away’ though I tend to prefer the
more eloquent ‘existence terminated’ and when I’m feeling brash and rebellious
I tend to prefer ‘died’.
