Meaning and Significance

More musings, in the face of the highly insurmountable stack of revision notes / exercises to be done before my Math paper tomorrow. I'll be glad the day I can upload thoughts direct from my brain to my blog. Until then, I'll have to make do with creating notes and my handphone and uploading them here if I have the time.

We all know the effects of time, and the change that it brings. We all know how time clouds our vision of the future; we don't know what it beholds, and the past; we leave the memories behind and cloud them in the thickest fog conceivable only in our subconscious so we never see them again.

With all the changes brought about over time and space, the greatest impact is brought about in the changing of meaning and significance. Historical monuments from the past lose their greatness. (Who wants to preserve some ancient Aztec or Mayan temple of worship?) Nuclear weapons, once greatly feared all across the world, lose their significance as mass production begun; whether it be five thousand or five, they are enough to bring the entire world to its knees. We change presidents and governments every few years, and we forget the little additions into the state law, and any reformations that they may have brought about. We accept all these as a continual, inevitable part of life, and we move on not bothering to think back upon them.

It becomes worse when this is brought down into the little things in our lives. When the sunrise we see each morning holds no more meaning than our very next breath; when the people around us come and go without us knowing; when we accept that there will always be another tomorrow to make up for our lack of discipline and procrastination, we just lose the meaning and joy of life. It is indeed sad that things which once held such great altars in our lives can fade away into the sands of time.

I've learnt to treasure what I have, and not let time devalue the currency of importance and significance of the things in my life. I've erected my own altars, altars which commemorate the different events and milestones in my life, and they do not lose their value, simply because they are not physical forms. The world subjects everything to the value of the lords of wealth and prosperity, but existence is clearly worth more than that. I will not sell my soul, no matter what the cost.