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Have you ever wondered why it is when you finish a good story book or finish a good game your chest seems to hurt and you kind of wish you never finished it? That ending of something you enjoyed so feverishly that you managed to finish it to completion only to regret that same passion?
Sometimes I wonder if we as human beings are only meant for some sick suffering. The things that make us happy eventually make us sad in the end. But that’s it isn’t it? Its that ending, the one thing we all know will eventually come for us, the inevitable end.
Whenever you finish a good book or a good video game that painfulness in the chest is like a gentle reminder that no matter how much you love it or how much you’re enjoying it, Some day it has to come to the end. Some people call this the circle of life to make it seem easier but the truth is its never easy.
All of the memory’s you make, the story’s you experience that brings your heart all the fluttering and your brain the serotonin it so desperately needs seems to just come to full hilt and you can’t help but be struck with emotions. You don’t want it to end, you want it to continue on and on forever, That’s why the appeal of second chapters or sequel video games are such a resounding hit that keeps us coming back for more.
I think this can be applied to people.
If somebody dies in the world nobody notices or cares. Why would they? Some may say they feel sorry or wish you happy thoughts but the truth is their mind is on things that they have lost. That is the only way people can emphasize with others is by their own experiences, of course that doesn’t mean this is wrong for them its nice that they care and you should feel happy to have people around you who will relive those horrible feelings of loss just to try and be on your emotional level and to try and help raise you back up.
But during that one moment of loss, when you lose somebody who is closest to you – That single one moment, is when I believe we as humans are experiencing the most pain somebody can experience and unfortunately, You will always be by yourself in that pain.
Everyone needs to go through that pain eventually, It’s the “circle of life” after all. But what if we could prepare our minds for it? Just as our body prepares to defend off a virus or illness. Can we steel our heart against the pain that we know will one day come?
Its not a bad thought, is it? Maybe that’s what makes video games and books truly so enjoyable? You experience the ending of the book or the ending of the game and you experience a loss that isn’t on the same level as a loved one, But its still a bitter sweet loss. Maybe those who complete more games and books will have an easier time of it when a loved one comes to pass?
Or maybe –
We break ourselves down.
Our brain may understand the attempt, but our heart cannot. Having just lost somebody or lost something the pain of loss seems to be amplified. It may work as a distraction but unfortunately its that chest tightening pain that will not ever go away. It will never be forgotten. We’re just supposed to live with it until it is our turn to go.
Maybe the way to win isn’t to finish the book or finish the game. Maybe its to press the off button or close the book. After all, if it never ends then you can’t experience that loss, right? If somebody explains the ending to you, It’d be just like a random person passing away in the world. Its sad to know but in the end, it doesn’t impact you in the slightest.
…I think this can be applied to people.
If you never get close to anybody, Or you’re never around anyone – How would their loss impact you? You don’t know them? So why would you cry? Sure you may feel a little sad that somebody passed but by the time you’re eating dinner it would be out of your thought process. I think it works like this because our brain is constantly working its best to make us forget that the end isn’t a thing. It doesn’t exist. What doesn’t exist can’t hurt us right? The end doesn’t exist if you simply just close the book. Shut off the video game. After all, its not like it will impact anyone else but you.
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That's a splendid insight to the tragic sadness we suffer when someone is gone from our lives. I can relate to this 100% as my life is changing in worse possible direction. I too follow the philosophy of never letting anyone get close enough that it hurts when they leave. It caused me to miss out on tremendous amount of things and caused me pain too. I became stoic but life's too short to remain in a state of emotionless person only so you could not experience the bitter pain of the end. I think the key is to be careful to whom we allow to be important enough and invest in our relationships by the importance of the person. We should be more open to discuss the end rather than dreading it. But at the same time we should make each other remind that we don't go insane in creating the stories of end and missing out the present. It's a very cheesy line but hold true at all the situations. Of course, no one knows when we'll experience this end, but it does nothing good to ignore the ultimate truth and miss out on life. That's why, we should live each day as it's our last, and treat everyone with kindness.
ReplyWho's to say that when you die the World doesn't cry for you? There are storms and winds and gentle nodes of air, and every path we have ever walked has been walked before. We have no originality, we share almost all of our DNA with each other. Humans and creatures alike, we are organic and uniform life forms. We can read a book, we can play a game - but the lives that we live are impactful, no doubt about it. The fatal end is real for us all, but that doesn't make us fatalists. There is a reason that nothing lives forever, there is a reason that no life is guaranteed. That we are one and the same and yet couldn't be any different. And the reason that we live, we struggle and we prosper, is to find reckoning and truth. We search for meaning. And that is why when we hear about people who have died, of whom we weren't close to, we feel bittersweet.
This World does care about each of us, and while God and fate may disagree, I contest. The World is a phenomenon and if we are to live here in the company of others for thousands of years to come, it's in our best interests to feel everything that we can for one another. We are alive at the same time, in the midst of the cosmic web, suspended as this small speck of dust ages and reconfigures millenia after millenia. It is amazing that we're here, to even discuss the circle of life. As many Times and Worlds do not have the privilege of bearing life.
If you never get close, if you're never around, if you don't believe in this place - in the tangible reality of it all. You will only age and not evolve. Losing things is a human thing, is an organic thing. The process is horrible as we are vulnerable, and so we confide in others, lose them too, lose all that we have. We can sometimes even lose ourselves in the process. And then we have nothing left to lose. So we build, and we create, we replace and improvise. We renew or reupholster, we adapt to survive. It's a struggle, it's a great great struggle. But you were born to the most innovative, compassionate, technical species on this Earth. Death has never stopped any human from living, please do remember that.
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